Variable sources of beach sands of north Adriatic islands: Examples from Rab and Susak

Geologia Croatica

Volumn 61, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 379-384

  Lužar Oberiter, Borna ^a   Pavlaknvić, Snježana Mikulčić ^b   Crnjaković, Marta ^b   Babić, Ljubomir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b CROATIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Beach sands; Composition; Croatia; Framework; Heavy minerals; Rab; Sediment supply; Susak

Indexed keywords

BEACH; CARBONATE ROCK; CRETACEOUS; DETRITUS; EOCENE; EROSION; ISLAND; MINERAL; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; QUARTZ; SAND; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SOURCE ROCK;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; RAB; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUSAK;

EID: 58149522487     PISSN: 1330030X     EISSN: 13334875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4154/GC.2008.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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