Signatures of storms, oceanic floods and forearc tectonism in marine shelf strata of the Quinault Formation (Pliocene), Washington, USA

Sedimentology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 945-969

  Campbell, Kathleen A ^a   Nesbitt, Elizabeth A ^b   Bourgeois, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Forearc tectonism; Marine shelf strata; Palaeoecology; Storm flood sedimentation; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

FOREARC BASIN; PLATE TECTONICS; PLIOCENE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; PHOLADIDAE; SOLEMYA;

EID: 33748933700     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00788.x     Document Type: Article

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