Depositional architecture of a low-gradient ramp shelf in an epicontinental sea: The lower Cretaceous of Svalbard

Basin Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 655-675

  Midtkandal, I ^a   Nystuen, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 70349515042     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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