The diachroneity of alluvial-fan lithostratigraphy? A test case from southeastern Ebro basin magnetostratigraphy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 343-362

  Swanson Hysell, Nicholas ^a   Barbeau Jr , David L ^b  

^a Carleton College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

alluvial fan; Catalan Coastal Ranges; diachronous; Ebro Basin; foreland basin; growth strata; growth structure; magnetostratigraphy; Paleogene; sedimentation rate; sequence stratigraphy; synorogenic; wedge top

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CORRELATION METHODS; EXTRAPOLATION; LITHOLOGY; ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ALLUVIAL FAN; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA INTERPRETATION; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOGENE; PALEOSOL; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

CATALONIA; CATALONIAN COASTAL RANGES; EBRO BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 35148835329     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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