Deep-Sea Tsunami Deposits in the Proto-Caribbean Sea at the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary

Tsunamiites - Features and Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 251-275

  Goto, K ^a,b   Tada, R ^a   Tajika, E ^a   Matsui, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84882858630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-51552-0.00015-1     Document Type: Chapter

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