Tectonics, sedimentation, and erosion in northern California: Submarine geomorphology and sediment preservation potential as a result of three competing processes

Marine Geology

Volumn 154, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 369-382

  Orange, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticlines; Geomorphology; Tectonics; Triple junction

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033514415     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00124-8     Document Type: Article

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