Seasonal record from recent fluvial tufa deposits (Monasterio de Piedra, NE Spain): Sedimentological and stable isotope data

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 336, Issue , 2010, Pages 119-142

  Arenas, C ^a   Osacar C ^a   Sancho, C ^a   Vazquez Urbez M ^a   Auque L ^a   Pardo, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEXTURE; TUFA;

SPAIN;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 77956159402     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP336.7     Document Type: Article

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