Grain-size characteristics for distinguishing basin floor fan and slope fan depositional settings: Outcrop and subsurface examples from the late miocene mount messenger formation, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-227

  Browne, Greg H ^a   King, Peter R ^a   Higgs, Karen E ^a   Slatt, Roger M ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin floor fan; Bathyal; Deep water sedimentation; Grain size analysis; Mount Messenger Formation; Paleoenvironment; Slope fan; Thin section petrography

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; MIOCENE;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

EID: 22944485011     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2005.9515111     Document Type: Article

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