Piston coring of inner Oslofjord pockmarks, Norway: Constraints on age and mechanism

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 79-91

  Hammer, Øyvind ^a   Webb, Karen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; AGE DETERMINATION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONE PENETRATION TEST; CORE ANALYSIS; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE MARGIN; LOGGING (GEOPHYSICS); POCKMARK; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION RATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

NORWAY; OSLOFJORDEN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 77953013707     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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