Last millennia sedimentary record on a micro-tidal, low-accumulation prodelta (Têt NW Mediterranean)

Marine Geology

Volumn 243, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 77-96

  Bourrin, François ^a   Monaco, André ^a   Aloïsi, Jean Claude ^a   Sanchez Cabeza, Joan Albert ^b   Lofi, Johanna ^c   Heussner, Serge ^a   Durrieu de Madron, Xavier ^a   Jeanty, Gérard ^a   Buscail, Roselyne ^a   Saragoni, Gilles ^a  

^a Université de Perpignan Via Domitia Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens CEFREM UMR 5110 CNRS   (France)

^b IAEA Marine Environment Laboratories   (Monaco)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

210Pb; Gulf of Lions; Mediterranean Sea; prodelta; radiocarbon; sedimentary sequence; sedimentology; Turitella communis

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC BIOTA; GULF OF LIONS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRODELTA; RADIOCARBON; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TURITELLA COMMUNIS;

HYDRODYNAMICS; LEAD; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

ACCUMULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLOODING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MOLLUSC; PRESERVATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

TURITELLA;

EID: 34547850221     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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