"Chevrons" are not mega-tsunami deposits - A sedimentologic assessment

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 403-406

  Bourgeois, Joanne ^a   Weiss, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID IMPACT; AUSTRALIA; BAHAMAS; BED FORMS; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; HOLOCENES; INDIAN OCEAN; MADAGASCAR; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; U-SHAPED; WAVE APPROACH;

DEPOSITS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

TSUNAMIS;

BEDFORM; BEDLOAD; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUSPENDED LOAD; TSUNAMI;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 69649103628     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25246A.1     Document Type: Article

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