Relating eolian bounding-surface geometries to the bed forms that generated them: Etjo Formation, Cretaceous, Namibia

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-162

  Mountney, Nigel ^a,c   Howell, John ^a   Flint, Stephen ^a   Jerram, Dougal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EROSION; GEOMETRY;

BED FORMS; BOUNDING SURFACES; ENDMEMBERS; EOLIAN SEDIMENTATION; FLOOD BASALT; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; NAMIBIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY;

MORPHOLOGY;

BEDFORM; CRETACEOUS; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; SANDSTONE;

HUAB BASIN; NAMIBIA;

EID: 84879883887     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0159:REBSGT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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