Sediment deposition in the northern basins of the North Atlantic and characteristic variations in shelf sedimentation along the East Greenland margin

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1321-1337

  Berger, Daniela ^a   Jokat, Wilfried ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glacial sediments; Prograding foresets; Sediment transport; Seismic reflection

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT STRUCTURES; DEEP SEA BASINS; FRACTURE ZONE; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAMS; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN BASINS; PLEISTOCENE; PROGRADING FORESETS; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT DEPOSITS; SEDIMENT STRUCTURES; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY STRATA; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SHELF BREAK; SHELF SEDIMENT; SHELF SEDIMENTATION; SOUTHEAST GREENLAND; SUB-UNITS; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; REFLECTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCUMULATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; OCEAN BASIN; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; UNCONFORMITY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

BOREAS;

EID: 67650302638     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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