Contrasting sedimentary processes along a convergent margin: The Lesser Antilles arc system

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 397-410

  Picard, Michel ^a   Schneider, Jean Luc ^a   Boudon, Georges ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b IPG Paris   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GRAVITATION; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY; VOLCANOES;

GRAVITY FLOW PROCESSES; INSULAR SHELVES; LESSER ANTILLES ISLAND ARC; TECTONO-SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITIONAL DOMAINS; VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BACKARC BASIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEBRIS AVALANCHE; FOREARC BASIN; ISLAND ARC; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 37849185718     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-006-0046-y     Document Type: Article

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