Deposits of depletive high-density turbidity currents: A flume analogue of bed geometry, structure and texture

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1053-1088

  Baas, Jaco H ^a   van Kesteren, Wessel ^b   Postma, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flume experiments; Grain size; High density turbidity currents; Sedimentary architecture; Stratification; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

BED ROUGHNESS; BEDFORM; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GEOMETRY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

EID: 2142667609     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00660.x     Document Type: Article

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