Near-seafloor overpressure in the deepwater Mississippi Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Dugan, Brandon ^a   Germaine, John T ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; CONSOLIDATION; HYDROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRESSURE; SEDIMENTATION;

NEAR-SEAFLOOR OVERPRESSURE; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENTATION-CONSOLIDATION MODELS;

GEOPHYSICS;

CONSOLIDATION; DEEP WATER; FLOW FIELD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OVERPRESSURE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40849100307     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032275     Document Type: Article

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