Holocene to modern fine-grained sedimentation on a macrotidal shoreface-to-inner-shelf setting (eastern Bay of the Seine, France)

Marine Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 33-54

  Garnaud, Sébastien ^a   Lesueur, Patrick ^a   Clet, Martine ^a   Lesourd, Sandric ^b   Garlan, Thierry ^c   Lafite, Robert ^d   Brun Cottan, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^c SHOM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Bay of the Seine; Estuarine flood; Holocene; Macrotidal environment; Mud deposit; Ravinement surface; Shoreface to inner shelf

Indexed keywords

CLAY; EROSION; ESTUARIES; HYDROLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY;

FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENTATION; PALYNOLOGICAL STUDIES;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF SEDIMENT;

BAY OF SEINE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0345377590     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00266-4     Document Type: Article

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