Textural trends in turbidites and slurry beds from the Oligocene flysch of the East Carpathians, Romania

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 945-972

  Sylvester, Zoltán ^a   Lowe, Donald R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Debris flows; East Carpathians; Grading; Grain size distributions; Inverse grading; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; FLYSCH; GRAIN SIZE; OLIGOCENE; SLURRY; SORTING; TURBIDITE;

CARPATHIANS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 6944248806     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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