Variations in shoreface progradation and ravinement along the Texas coast, Gulf of Mexico

Sedimentology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 837-853

  Rodriguez, Antonio B ^a   Fassell, Michelle L ^b   Anderson, John B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreshore; Littoral drift; Longshore current; Ravinement; Shoreface; Transgression

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SHORELINE; TRANSGRESSION;

GULF OF MEXICO; TEXAS COAST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034874483     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2001.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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