Channel-levee complexes, terminal deep-sea fan and sediment wave fields associated with the Toyama Deep-Sea Channel system in the Japan Sea

Marine Geology

Volumn 147, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 25-41

  Nakajima, Takeshi ^a   Satoh, Mikio ^a   Okamura, Yukinobu ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Channel geometry; Deep sea sedimentation; Japan Sea; Levees; Submarine fan; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL LEVEE; DEEP SEA FAN; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT WAVE;

JAPAN SEA;

EID: 0032076633     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00137-0     Document Type: Article

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