The Ordovician-Silurian boundary beds between Saaremaa and Gotland, Baltic Sea, based on high resolution seismic data

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-229

  Tuuling, Igor ^a   Flodén, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Basin; Carbonate buildups; Erosional features; Ordovician Silurian boundary; Seismostratigraphy; Stratigraphic gaps

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; EROSION; EROSION RATE; MARKER BED; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC REGION; BALTIC SEA; BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GOTLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SAAREMAA; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 35448959578     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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