A model for the headward erosion of submarine canyons induced by downslope-eroding sediment flows

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 225-234

  Pratson, Lincoln F ^a   Coakley, Bernard J ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; SLOPE STABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES; TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER MODELING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; ERODING SEDIMENTS; PHYSICALLY BASED; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE CANYON; DOWNSLOPE;

SEDIMENTS;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EROSION RATE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; MASS WASTING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE CANYON; HEADWARD EROSION; MODEL; SEDIMENT FLOW; SEDIMENT FLOWS; SUBMARINE CANYONS; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; MIE; NEW JERSEY; SHIMA; UNITED STATES; ATLANTIC; IZU-BONIN ARC; NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL SLOPE; PACIFIC;

EID: 0029730850     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0225:AMFTHE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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