Sediment supply: The main driver of shelf-margin growth

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 221-248

  Carvajal, Cristian ^a   Steel, Ron ^a   Petter, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

accretion rates; deep water sands; Gulf of Mexico Wilcox; sediment supply; sequence stratigraphy; shelf margins

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; DEEP WATER; DEFORMATION; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 71249109743     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.06.008     Document Type: Review

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