Volume balance of a submarine landslide in the Espírito Santo Basin, offshore Brazil: Quantifying seafloor erosion, sediment accumulation and depletion

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 572-580

  Alves, Tiago M ^a   Cartwright, Joseph A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

continental margin; remnant blocks; sediment depletion; submarine slides

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC; CONFINING PRESSURES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; IN-SITU; INSTABILITY EVENTS; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SCALE RELATIONSHIP; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; STOREGGA SLIDE; STUDY AREAS; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; SUBMARINE SLIDES; SUDDEN RELEASE; UPPER BOUNDARY; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

LANDSLIDES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES;

EROSION;

ACCUMULATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EROSION; SEAFLOOR; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; ESPIRITO SANTO BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70449707099     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.020     Document Type: Article

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