Patterns of Cenozoic sediment flux from western Scandinavia

Basin Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 377-400

  Gołedowski, Bartosz ^a   Nielsen, Søren B ^a   Clausen, Ole R ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE VARIATION; EOCENE; GLACIAL EROSION; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; POINT SOURCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FAROE-SHETLAND CHANNEL; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 84863466710     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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