Relative sea level variations in the Chukchi region - Arctic Ocean - Since the late Eocene

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 803-807

  Hegewald, Anne ^a   Jokat, Wilfried ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chukchi Shelf; multi channel seismic reflection data; prograding sequences; relative sea level variations

Indexed keywords

CHUKCHI SHELF; EROSIONAL PROCESS; MATERIAL TRANSPORT; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC DATUM; PROGRADING SEQUENCES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; TECTONIC ACTIVITY;

SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEISMIC WAVES;

BASIN ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; EOCENE; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONICS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CHUKCHI; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84876805285     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50182     Document Type: Article

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