Downslope-migrating sandwaves and platform-margin clinoforms in a current-dominated, distally steepened temperate-carbonate ramp Guadix Basin, Southern Spain

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 293-311

  Puga Bernabéu, Ángel ^a   Martín, José M ^a   Braga, Juan C ^a   Sánchez Almazo, Isabel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distally steepened ramp; Downslope migrating sandwaves; Guadix basin; Platform margin clinoforms; Surface marine currents; Temperate carbonates

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE RAMP; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CURRENT; PROGRADATION; SAND WAVE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHALLOW WATER; TORTONIAN;

ANDALUCIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DEHESAS DE GUADIX; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; GUADIX BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

EID: 74549157218     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01079.x     Document Type: Article

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