The Var turbidite system (Ligurian sea, northwestern Mediterranean) - Morphology, sediment supply, construction of turbidite levee and sediment waves: Implications for hydrocarbon reservoirs

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 361-371

  Migeon, Sébastien ^a   Mulder, Thierry ^b   Savoye, Bruno ^c   Sage, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDROCARBONS; MORPHOLOGY; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; TURBIDITY;

FAILURE-AND FLOOD-INDUCED GRAVITY FLOWS; SEDIMENT WAVES; VAR TURBIDITE SYSTEM;

LEVEES;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LEVEE; MASS WASTING; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT WAVE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 37849188136     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-006-0047-x     Document Type: Article

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