Impact of eustatic amplitude variations on shelf morphology, sediment dispersal, and sequence stratigraphic interpretation: Icehouse versus greenhouse systems

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 587-590

  Sømme, Tor O ^a   Helland Hansen, William ^a,b   Granjeon, Didier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; FOURTH-ORDER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL MODELING; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PROGRADATION; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL; SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; SEQUENCE-STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS;

GREENHOUSES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; WAREHOUSES;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EUSTACY; HIGHSTAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 69649102497     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25511A.1     Document Type: Article

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