Sedimentary processes in a submarine canyon excavated into a temperate-carbonate ramp (Granada Basin, southern Spain)

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1449-1466

  Puga Bernabéu, Ángel ^a   Martín, José M ^a   Braga, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Granada Basin; Incised valley; Infilling patterns; Internal cyclicity; Submarine canyon; Temperate carbonates

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; CYCLICITY; EROSION; INCISED VALLEY; INFILL; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHALLOW WATER; SHORELINE; STORM DEPOSIT; SUBMARINE CANYON; TORTONIAN;

ALHAMA DE GRANADA; ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRANADA BASIN; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 52449133501     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00952.x     Document Type: Article

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