Late Quaternary (Marine Isotope Stage 3 to Recent) sedimentary evolution of the basque shelf (southern Bay of Biscay)

Boreas

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 973-988

  Martínez García, Blanca ^a   Bodego, Arantxa ^a   Mendicoa, Jone ^a   Pascual, Ana ^a   Rodríguez Lázaro, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUSTACY; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELF SEDIMENT; TRANSGRESSION; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 84907878710     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12079     Document Type: Article

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