New classification system for mass transport complexes in offshore Trinidad

Basin Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-98

  Moscardelli, Lorena ^a   Wood, Lesli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MASS TRANSPORT; PETROGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DELTA AMACURO; LESSER ANTILLES; ORINOCO DELTA; SOUTH AMERICA; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VENEZUELA;

EID: 40149092643     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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