Stream‐driven, high‐density gravelly traction carpets: possible deposits in the Trabeg Conglomerate Formation, SW Ireland and some theoretical considerations of their origin

Sedimentology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 513-530

  TODD, SIMON P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL SEQUENCE; DEBRIS FLOW PROCESS; DEBRIS-FLOW PROCESS; DEVONIAN; FLOOD FLOW; GRAVEL BED RIVER; GRAVEL CARPET; GRAVEL-BED RIVER; OLD RED SANDSTONE; TRABEG CONGLOMERATE FORMATION; TRACTION CARPET;

IRELAND;

EID: 0024812750     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1989.tb02083.x     Document Type: Article

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