Late Pleistocene and Holocene sedimentary facies on the SW Galicia Bank (Atlantic NW Iberian Peninsula)

Marine Geology

Volumn 249, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 46-63

  Alonso, B ^a   Ercilla, G ^a   Casas, D ^a   Estrada, F ^a   Farran M ^a   Garcia M ^a   Rey, D ^b   Rubio, B ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galicia Bank; Late Quaternary; sedimentary instability; sedimentary processes; stratigraphy; turbidite

Indexed keywords

LATE QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY INSTABILITY; SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES;

EROSION; STABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITY;

SEDIMENTS;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; EROSIVITY; FACIES; FAULT SCARP; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LITHOFACIES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; OUTCROP; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GALICIA BANK;

EID: 39549112504     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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