Transitional carbonate-terrigenous shelf sub-environments inferred from textural characteristics of surficial sediments in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1836-1852

  Hernandez Arana, Hector A ^a,b   Attrill, Martin J ^b   Hartley, Richard ^b   Bouchot, Gerardo Gold ^c  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA APLICADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Grain size; Gulf of Mexico; Mixed sediments; Multivariate analysis; Shelf sediments

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; SEDIMENTATION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TEXTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 25144517748     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2005.06.007     Document Type: Article

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