Interpreting long-profiles of canyons in the USA Atlantic continental slope

Marine Geology

Volumn 214, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 75-99

  Mitchell, Neil C ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

continental slope deposition; debris flows; river bed erosion; submarine channel erosion; threshold hillslopes; turbidity currents

Indexed keywords

CANYON GRAPHS; CHANNEL EROSION; RIVER SYSTEMS; TECTONIC UPLIFT;

CATCHMENTS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAM FLOW; TURBIDITY;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EROSION; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUBMARINE CHANNEL; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11844273865     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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