Sedimentology of the Bengal shelf, Bangladesh: Comparison of late Miocene sediments, Sitakund anticline, with the modern, tidally dominated shelf

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 155, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 271-300

  Davies, Clare ^a   Best, Jim ^a   Collier, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delta; Facies associations; Late Miocene; Progradational shelf; Seasonal cyclicity; Tidal

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; MIOCENE; SEASONALITY; SHELF SEDIMENT; TECTONIC SETTING; TIDAL CONSTITUENT;

BANGLADESH; BAY OF BENGAL;

EID: 0037302611     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00183-5     Document Type: Article

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