Evidence of across-shelf transport of fine-grained sediments: Turbidite-filled shelf channels in the Campanian Aberdeen Member, Book Cliffs, Utah, USA

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1033-1064

  Pattison, Simon A J ^a   Bruce Ainsworth, R ^b   Hoffman, Trevor A ^a,c  

^a BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aberdeen Member; Across shelf transport; Book Cliffs; Hyperpycnites; Isolated sandbodies; Sediment bypass; Shelf channels; Shoreface to shelf depositional models; Turbidity currents; Underflows; Wave modified turbidites; Wave supported gravity flows

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DEPOSITION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GRAVITY FLOW; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHELF SEDIMENT; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

BOOK CLIFFS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 34548835247     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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