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The challenge of reconstructing the Phanerozoic sea level and the Pacific Basin tectonics Cover

The challenge of reconstructing the Phanerozoic sea level and the Pacific Basin tectonics

Geologos
Volume 16 (2010): Issue 4 (December 2010)
By: Dmitry Ruban,  Clinton Conrad and  A. van Loon  
Open Access
|Jan 2011

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10118-010-0007-9 | Journal eISSN: 2080-6574 | Journal ISSN: 1426-8981
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Language: English
Page range: 235 - 243
Published on: Jan 17, 2011
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
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Keywords:
sea-floor bathymetry,
dynamic topography,
sea-level changes,
plate tectonics,
Pacific,
Panthalassa,
Phanerozoic
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