Liquification and soft-sediment deformation in a limestone megabreccia: The Ayabacas giant collapse, Cretaceous, southern Peru

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 212, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 49-69

  Callot, Pierre ^a,b,c   Odonne, Francis ^a,b,c   Sempere, Thierry ^a,b,c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Andean Cordillera; Ayabacas Formation; Fossil submarine slides; Megabreccia; Sedimentary instabilities; Soft sediment deformation; Turonian Coniacian boundary

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONIACIAN; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; INSTABILITY; LIMESTONE; MEGABRECCIA; REWORKING; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SEDIMENTATION; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TURONIAN;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

CONIACIAN;

EID: 56549098971     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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