Late Pleistocene channel incisions in the southern Eel River Basin, northern California: Implications for tectonic vs. eustatic influences on shelf sedimentation patterns

Marine Geology

Volumn 177, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 317-330

  Burger, Robert L ^a,b   Fulthorpe, Craig S ^b   Austin Jr , James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried channels; Continental shelf; Eel River; Neotectonics; Sediment transport; Seismic unconformities

Indexed keywords

MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC PROFILES;

CATCHMENTS; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTATION;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EUSTACY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035879169     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(01)00166-9     Document Type: Article

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