Coarse-grained sediment delivery and distribution in the Holocene Santa Monica Basin, California: Implications for evaluating source-to-sink flux at millennial time scales

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 1394-1408

  Romans, Brian W ^a,c   Normark, William R ^b   McGann, Mary M ^b   Covault, Jacob A ^a   Graham, Stephan A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; COARSE-GRAINED; COARSE-GRAINED SEDIMENTS; DEEP-MARINE; DEPOCENTERS; DISPERSAL PATHWAYS; EVENT TIMING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; INCREASED DISCHARGES; LITTORAL CELL; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PROGRADATION; RATE OF RISE; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RIVER INPUT; SANTA CLARA; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENT FLUX; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; SUBMARINE CANYON; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; TIME-SCALES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; RIVERS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES; TURBIDITY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DEPOSITION; HOLOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBMARINE FAN; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; TURBIDITE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA MONICA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449394535     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26393.1     Document Type: Article

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