Facies architecture and depositional processes of the Holocene-Recent accretionary forced regressive skagen spit system, Denmark

Sedimentology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 935-968

  Nielsen, Lars Henrik ^a   Johannessen, Peter Niels ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accretionary forced regression; Bar trough deposits; Beach deposits; Holocene Recent; Spit system; Storm beds

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; FACIES; HOLOCENE; SPIT;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORDJYLLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKAGEN SPIT;

EID: 65649139102     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.01007.x     Document Type: Article

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