Quaternary facies assemblages and their bounding surfaces, Chesapeake Bay mouth: An approach to mesoscale stratigraphic analysis

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 672-690

  Parsons, Brian ^a   Swift, Donald J P ^a   Williams, Kenneth ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; DEPOSITS; EROSION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; PROCESS-BASED MODELING; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; TEXTBOOK DEFINITIONS; VERTICAL TRANSITIONS;

SEPARATION;

FACIES ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0012219171     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/012103730672     Document Type: Article

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