Late Pleistocene channel-levee development on Monterey submarine fan, central California

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 179-188

  Normark, W R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEVEE; PLEISTOCENE; SUBMARINE FAN;

MONTEREY FAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032900227     PISSN: 02761157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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