The Western Adriatic shelf clinoform: energy-limited bottomset

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 506-525

  Cattaneo, Antonio ^a   Trincardi, Fabio ^a   Asioli, Alessandra ^b   Correggiari, Annamaria ^a  

^a ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Adriatic; Bottom currents; Bottomset; Clinoform; Regime model

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BOTTOM CURRENT; COASTAL LANDFORM; CONTINENTAL SHELF; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHELF SEDIMENT;

ADRIATIC COAST [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846818583     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

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