Upper-flow-regime stratification types on steep-face, coarse-grained, Gilbert-type progradational wedges (Pleistocene, southern Italy)

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 364-375

  Massari, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACIES DISTRIBUTION; GILBERT TYPE DELTA; LAMINATION; PLEISTOCENE; PROGRADATION WEDGE; STRATIFICATION;

ITALY, BRADANIC TROUGH;

ELASTIC WAVES; HYDRAULIC JUMP; SCOUR; SHEAR STRESS;

INTRINSIC INSTABILITY; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL; SEDIMENT PARTICLES; SOUTHERN APENNINES; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION; STANDING WAVE CONDITIONS; SUBMERGED HYDRAULIC JUMPS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 0029750549     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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