Stratigraphic variability due to uncertainty in model boundary conditions: A case-study of the New Jersey Shelf over the last 40,000 years

Marine Geology

Volumn 224, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 23-41

  Overeem, Irina ^a   Syvitski, James P M ^a   Hutton, Eric W H ^a   Kettner, Albert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental margin sedimentation; Numerical models; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MOUTHBAR DEPOSITION; OCEAN STORM CLIMATE; PALEO-BATHYMETRY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STORMS; TECTONICS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NEW JERSEY MARGIN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27644529847     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2005.06.044     Document Type: Article

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