Tectonic controls on sequence stacking pattern and along-strike architecture in the Pleistocene Mejillones Formation, northern Chile: Implications for sequence stratigraphic models

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 125-144

  Cantalamessa, Gino ^a   Di Celma, Claudio ^a   Ragaini, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

High frequency sea level changes; Pleistocene; Sequence stratigraphy; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

FACIES ANALYSIS; PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 29844441626     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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