Contemporary channel-levee systems in active borderland basin plains, California Continental Borderland

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 53-72

  Schwalbach, J R ^a   Edwards, Brian D ^b   Gorsline, D S ^c  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL/LEVEE SYSTEM; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC SURVEY; SIDESCAN SONAR; SUBMARINE FAN;

PACIFIC, CALIFORNIA CONTINENTAL MARGIN; USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0029776552     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00120-4     Document Type: Article

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