Origin of continental margin morphology: Submarine-slide or downslope current-controlled bedforms, a rock magnetic approach

Marine Geology

Volumn 240, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 19-41

  Schwehr, K ^a   Driscoll, N ^a   Tauxe, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility; Eel River Basin; Humboldt Slide; slope failure; STRATAFORM; submarine landslides

Indexed keywords

EEL RIVER BASIN; SLOPE FAILURE; STRATAFORM;

BATHYMETRY; LANDSLIDES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SUBMARINES;

MORPHOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; BEDFORM; COASTAL EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENT WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

CALIFORNIA; EEL BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247641152     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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