Depositional events in Santa Monica Basin, California Borderland, over the past five centuries

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 73-88

  Gorsline, Donn S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; SEISMIC TRIGGERING; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE FAN; TURBIDITE;

PACIFIC, CALIFORNIA CONTINENTAL MARGIN; USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0029731404     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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