Liquefied vs stratified sediment mobilization processes: Insight from the South of the Barbados accretionary prism

Tectonophysics

Volumn 428, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 33-47

  Deville, Eric ^a   Guerlais, Sophie Hélène ^a   Callec, Yannick ^a   Griboulard, Roger ^b   Huyghe, Pascale ^c   Lallemant, Siegfried ^d   Mascle, Alain ^a   Noble, Mark ^e   Schmitz, Julien ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^e PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Barbados; Mobile shale; Mud volcano; Overpressure

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MOBILIZATION; MUD VOLCANO; OVERPRESSURE; SHALE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 33751095347     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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