Downstream changes of large-scale bed forms in turbidites around the Valencia channel mouth, north-west Mediterranean: Implications for palaeoflow reconstruction

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 365-377

  Morris, S A ^a,b   Kenyon, N H ^c   Limonov, A F ^d   Alexander, J ^e  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Badley Ashton and Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; PALAEOFLOW RECONSTRUCTION; TURBIDITE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0031718009     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.0160f.x     Document Type: Article

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