The geological record of a mid-Holocene marine storm in southwestern Spain

Geobios

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 689-699

  Ruiz, Francisco ^a   Borrego, José ^a   López González, Nieves ^a   Abad, Manuel ^a   González Regalado, Maria Luz ^a   Carro, Berta ^a   Pendón, José Gabriel ^a   Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín ^a   Cáceres, Luis Miguel ^a   Prudêncio, Maria Isabel ^b   Dias, Maria Isabel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Estuarine facies; Holocene; Storm; SW Spain

Indexed keywords

FACIES; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; ODIEL RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34848836098     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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