Seismic facies of incised-valley fills, New Jersey continental shelf: Implications for erosion and preservation processes acting during latest Pleistocene-Holocene transgression

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1284-1303

  Nordfjord, Sylvia ^a   Goff, J A ^a   Austin, Jr ^a   Gulick, S P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; DEPOSITS; EROSION; ESTUARIES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TIDAL POWER;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; HOLOCENE TRANSGRESSION; HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; INCISED VALLEY FILL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATEST PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; TRANSGRESSIVE RAVINEMENT;

LANDFORMS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; EROSION; HOLOCENE; INCISED VALLEY; PLEISTOCENE; PRESERVATION; TRANSGRESSION; VALLEY FILL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NEW JERSEY SHELF;

EID: 33845660816     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2006.108     Document Type: Article

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