Palaeo-drainage, incised valley fills and transgressive systems tract sedimentation of the northern KwaZulu-Natal continental shelf, South Africa, SW Indian Ocean

Marine Geology

Volumn 263, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 46-63

  Green, A N ^a  

^a Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

Author keywords

incised valley fills; northern KwaZulu Natal; palaeo drainage; submarine canyons

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; COASTAL LAKE; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DOWNSLOPE; DRAINAGE CHANNELS; FLUVIAL INCISION; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; FORCED REGRESSION; HOLOCENE; INCISED VALLEY; INCISED VALLEY FILL; INCISED VALLEY FILLS; INDIAN OCEAN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE CRETACEOUS; NORTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL; PALAEO-DRAINAGE; PLEISTOCENE; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SHOREFACE; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUBMARINE CANYONS; TRANSGRESSIVE RAVINEMENT; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT; VALLEY TOPOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DEPOSITS; DRAINAGE; ESTUARIES; LAKES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBMARINES;

LANDFORMS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRETACEOUS; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DRAINAGE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; INCISED VALLEY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SUBMARINE CANYON; TRANSGRESSION; VALLEY FILL;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67349146012     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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