Cenozoic post-rift sedimentation off northwest Britain: Recording the detritus of episodic uplift on a passive continental margin

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 595-598

  Stoker, Martyn S ^a   Holford, Simon P ^b   Hillis, Richard R ^b   Green, Paul F ^c   Duddy, Ian R ^c  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITAIN; BRITISH ISLES; CENOZOIC; CENOZOIC SEDIMENTS; HOLOCENES; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PLIOCENE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SOLID GRAINS;

SETTLING TANKS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77954306332     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30881.1     Document Type: Article

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