Development of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf and coastal zone as a result of the Late Pleistocene - Holocene sea-level rise

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume III, Geology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 195-208

  Holmes, Charles W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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