Late Maastrichtian chalk mounds, Stevns Klint, Denmark - Combined physical and biogenic structures

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 57-72

  Anderskouv, Kresten ^a   Damholt, Tove ^b   Surlyk, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Østsjællands Museum   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bottom currents; Bryozoans; Chalk; Mud mounds; Stevns Klint; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; BRYOZOAN; CHALK; DEPOSITION; MAASTRICHTIAN; MUD MOUND; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STEVNS KLINT; STORSTROM;

BRYOZOA;

EID: 34250715995     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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