Contrasting styles of siliciclastic tidal deposits in a developing Thrust-Sheet-Top Basins - The lower Eocene of the central Pyrenees (Spain)

Principles of Tidal Sedimentology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 473-506

  Martinius, A W ^a  

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