Fluid-escape features as a precursor of a large sublacustrine sediment slide in Lake Le Bourget, NW Alps, France

Terra Nova

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 305-311

  Chapron, E ^a,b   Van Rensbergen, P ^a   De Batist, M ^a   Beck, C ^c   Henriet, J P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEWATERING; EARTHQUAKE; FLUID FLOW; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; SLUMPING; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 6944255164     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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