Shallow stratigraphy and complex transgressive ravinement on the New Jersey middle and outer continental shelf

Marine Geology

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 232-243

  Nordfjord, Sylvia ^a,b   Goff, John A ^c   Austin Jr , James A ^c   Duncan, Laurie Schuur ^d  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d Potato Hill Science Writing   (United States)

Author keywords

chirp seismic; Holocene; New Jersey shelf; Pleistocene; shelf sediment wedge; transgressive ravinement

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENES; NEW JERSEY; PLEISTOCENE; SHELF SEDIMENT; TRANSGRESSIVE RAVINEMENT;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLAY MINERALS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EROSION;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EROSION RATE; EUSTACY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; INCISED VALLEY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF SEDIMENT; TIDAL CHANNEL; TRANSGRESSION;

NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71849118362     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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