Newly recognized eastern extension of the Nile deep-sea fan

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 939-942

  Folkman, Yehoshua ^a   Mart, Yossi ^b,c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL COMPLEX; CHANNEL DISTRIBUTIONS; DEEP SEA FAN; DOWNSLOPE; EVAPORITES; GRAVITY GLIDING; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTS; HIGH QUALITY; HOLOCENES; LEVANT BASIN; MASS TRANSPORT; MESSINIAN; PLIOCENE; SALT LAYERS; SEISMIC DATAS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS;

SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA SET; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT; FOLDING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBMARINE FAN; TURBIDITE;

AFRICA; DAMIETTA; EGYPT; LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NILE RIVER; NORTH AFRICA;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 69649084641     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24995A.1     Document Type: Article

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