Sedimentary processes in the Selvage sediment-wave field, NE Atlantic: New insights into the formation of sediment waves by turbidity currents

Sedimentology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1181-1197

  Wynn, Russell B ^a   Weaver, Philip P E ^a   Ercilla, Gemma ^b   Stow, Dorrik A V ^a   Masson, Douglas G ^a   Rodsmith, I ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Froude number; Sediment waves; Turbidity currents

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; DEEP WATER FORMATION; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY CURRENT; WAVE FIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SELVAGE;

EID: 0034477675     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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