Reconstruction of Tertiary progradation and clinoform development on the New Jersey passive margin by 2-D backstripping

Marine Geology

Volumn 154, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 399-420

  Steckler, Michael S ^a   Mountain, Gregory S ^a   Miller, Kenneth G ^a,b   Christie Blick, Nicholas ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backstripping; Clinoform; Continental margins; Sea level; Sequence stratigraphy; Tertary climate

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PASSIVE MARGIN; PROGRADATION; RECONSTRUCTION; STRATIGRAPHY; TERTIARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033514416     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00126-1     Document Type: Article

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