Stable and ultrastable heavy minerals of alluvial to nearshore marine sediments from Central Portugal: Facies related trends

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 201, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Dinis, Pedro A ^a   Soares, António F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Facies; Heavy mineral; Hydraulic segregation; Provenance

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; ANDALUSITE; DEPOSITION; FACIES; HEAVY MINERAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PROVENANCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STAUROLITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MARGIN; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548324785     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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