Scaling of sedimentation rates and drowning of reefs and carbonate platforms

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 183-186

  Schlager, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REEFS;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DROWNED PLATFORMS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GROWTH POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TIME FRACTIONS;

SEDIMENTATION;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; REEF; SCALE EFFECT; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

EID: 84874974386     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0183:SOSRAD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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