Anatomy of a shoreface sand ridge revisited using foraminifera: False Cape Shoals, Virginia/North Carolina inner shelf

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2428-2441

  Robinson, Marci M ^a   McBride, Randolph A ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False Cape; Foraminifera; Inner continental shelf; Micropaleontology; Outer Banks; Shelf facies; Shelf sedimentation; Shoreface sand ridges; US mid Atlantic bight; USA; Virginia North Carolina

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; FORAMINIFERA; GRAVEL; HIGHSTAND; HOLOCENE; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SAND RIDGE; SANDY CLAY; SHELF SEDIMENT; SHOALING WAVE; SPIT; STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 51249113429     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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