Deep-water sedimentation on an evolving fault-block: The Braux and St Benoit outcrops of the Grès d'Annot

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 221, Issue , 2004, Pages 267-283

  Tomasso, Mark ^a   Sinclair, Hugh D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2142828004     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.221.01.14     Document Type: Article

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