Stratigraphic organisation of a composite macrotidal wedge: The Holocene sedimentary infilling of the Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (NW France)

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-113

  Tessier, Bernadette ^a   Billeaud, Isabelle ^a   Lesueur, Patrick ^a  

^a CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

English channel; Holocene infilling; Mont Saint Michel; Tide dominated embayment and estuary; Very high resolution seismic; Vibrocores

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFILL; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN BASIN; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; TIDAL CURRENT; TRANSGRESSION;

BASSE NORMANDIE; ENGLISH CHANNEL; FRANCE; MANCHE; MONT SAINT MICHEL BAY;

EID: 77951631592     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.181.2.99     Document Type: Article

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