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© 1990 The International Association of Sedimentologists ISBN: 978-0-632-02758-3 James Lee Wilson, Paul D. Crevello, J. Rick Sarg, J. Fred Read Carbonate Platforms: Facies, Sequences and Evolution Edited by Maurice E. Tucker, misleading information as to the actual periods involved. changes it can be demonstrated once again that data derived from the geological record may provide accumulation rates set for each. Using the sum wave of up to three Milankovich periods to trigger facies be through factors other than sea-lev

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