Chapter 3 The Sources and Hydraulic Sorting of Heavy Minerals on the Northern Portuguese Continental Margin

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 75-110

  Cascalho, João ^a   Fradique, Catarina ^b  

^a Museu Nacional de Historia Natural Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO HIDROGRÁFICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

continental margin; heavy minerals; Portugal; sorting; sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349160628     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58003-9     Document Type: Review

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