The incised valley of Baffin Bay, Texas: a tale of two climates

Sedimentology - Tập 57 Số 2 - Trang 642-669 - 2010
Alexander R. Simms1, NIRANJAN ARYAL, Lauren Miller1, Yūsuke Yokoyama2,3
1Boone Pickens School of Geology, Oklahoma State University, 105 NRC, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA (E-mail: [email protected])
2Institute of Biogeosciences, Earth and Life History Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, JapanAssociate Editor – Dave Mallinson
3Ocean Research Institute and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tokyo, 1-15-1 Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-8639, Japan

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