Dynamic equilibrium within ocean trenches: A useful analytical tool?

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-154

  Mountney, Nigel P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CLIMATIC PERIODS; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; GEOMETRICAL MODELING; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SUBDUCTION RATES;

GEOMETRY;

CENOZOIC; DEEP DRILLING; GEOMETRY; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH; ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; ACCRETIONARY PRISMS; OCEAN TRENCH; SEDIMENTATION; TRENCHES;

EID: 0030838960     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0151:DEWOTA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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