Grain-size trends reveal the late orogenic tectonic and erosional history of the south-central Pyrenees, Spain

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-114

  Parsons, Andrew J ^a,b   Michael, Nikolas A ^a   Whittaker, Alexander C ^a   Duller, Robert A ^a,c   Allen, Philip A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; CLIMATIC SIGNALS; LATE EOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALAEOGENE; PYRENEES; SEDIMENT BUDGETS; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENT-ROUTING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; EOCENE; EROSION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GRAIN SIZE; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; PALEOCLIMATE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TREND ANALYSIS;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84857859549     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-087     Document Type: Article

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