Millennial-scale sea-level control on avulsion events on the Amazon Fan

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 23-24, 2006, Pages 3338-3345

  Maslin, Mark ^a   Knutz, Paul C ^b   Ramsay, Tony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EROSION; HYDROCARBONS; MARINE BIOLOGY; SAND; STRATIGRAPHY;

ANCIENT FAN SYSTEMS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAND LENSES DEPOSITION; SEA LEVEL CONTROL;

SEA LEVEL;

AGGRADATION; AVULSION; CHANNEL CHANGE; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LEVEE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUBMARINE FAN; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; TRAP (GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE);

AMAZON FAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 33846847725     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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