Reconstruction of sediment supply from mass accumulation rates in the Northern Adriatic Basin (Italy) over the past 19,000 years

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Brommer, Marit B ^a,b   Weltje, Gert Jan ^a   Trincardi, Fabio ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Royal Haskoning DHV   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; DEPOSITION; EROSION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; OCEAN BASIN; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIGRAPHY; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNCONFORMITY;

ADRIATIC SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 73649117850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JF000987     Document Type: Article

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