The Nile deep-sea fan: An example of interacting sedimentation, salt tectonics, and inherited subsalt paleotopographic features

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-315

  Loncke, Lies ^a   Gaullier, Virginie ^b   Mascle, Jean ^c   Vendeville, Bruno ^d   Camera, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Deep sea fan; Inheritance; Salt tectonics

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA FAN; SALT TECTONICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SALTS; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SALT TECTONICS; SEDIMENTATION; SUBMARINE FAN;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; NILE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 33646756207     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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