Terrigenous sediment export from the western margin of South Africa on glacial to interglacial cycles

Marine Geology

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 212-222

  Compton, John S ^a   Wiltshire, James G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

continental margin; glauconite; internal tides; sea level; shelf export; slope

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; CLIMATE CYCLE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLACIAL TERMINATIONS; GLAUCONITE; GRAVITY CORE; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; INTERNAL TIDES; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; MUD CONTENTS; NEO GENES; ORANGE RIVER; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ SAND; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SAND EROSION; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SHELF BREAK; SHELF SEDIMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER DEPTH;

CEMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MICA; OCEAN CURRENTS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SAND; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TIDES;

EROSION;

BOTTOM CURRENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLAUCONITE; INTERNAL TIDE; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHELF DYNAMICS; SHELF SEDIMENT; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; TURBIDITY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 71749114328     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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