Cretaceous eustasy revisited

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-58

  Haq, Bilal U ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Amplitude of sea level changes; Cretaceous eustasy; Eustatic sea level

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; EUSTASY; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; ORBITAL ECCENTRICITY; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SEALEVEL CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

SEA LEVEL;

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ECCENTRICITY; EUSTACY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PERIODICITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 84891808709     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.12.007     Document Type: Review

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