Deconvolving tectono-climatic signals in deep-marine siliciclastics, Eocene Ainsa basin, Spanish Pyrenees: Seesaw tectonics versus eustasy

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-206

  Pickering, Kevin T ^a   Bayliss, Nicole J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATIC SIGNALS; DEEP-MARINE; DEEP-MARINE SYSTEMS; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; EASTERN SIDE; EUSTASY; MILANKOVITCH; POINT SOURCES; SAND BODY; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SILICICLASTICS; SPANISH PYRENEES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WATER COLUMNS; WATER CONDITIONS; WATER DEPTH;

SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS;

FANS;

ACTIVE MARGIN; BASIN FILL; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; EOCENE; EUSTACY; OROGENY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SUBMARINE FAN; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; WATER COLUMN;

AINSA BASIN; ARAGON; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUESCA [ARAGON]; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 69649086563     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25261A.1     Document Type: Article

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