Experiments on upstream-migrating submarine knickpoints

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 772-783

  Toniolo, Horacio ^a   Cantelli, Alessandro ^b,c  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; DEPOSITS; LABORATORIES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILICA; SUBMARINES; TURBIDITY;

GENTLE SLOPES; GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY STUDIES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; TURBIDITY CURRENT; UPSTREAM MIGRATION;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; EROSION; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBIDITY; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 35448961682     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.067     Document Type: Article

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