Outcrop-scale acoustic facies analysis and latest Quaternary development of Hueneme and Dume submarine fans, offshore California

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-78

  Piper, D J W ^a   Hiscott, R N ^b   Normark, W R ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic facies; Flow processes; Quaternary; Submarine fan; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; FACIES; QUATERNARY; SUBMARINE FAN; TURBIDITE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033066104     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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