High-relief slope clinoform development: Insights from outcrop, magallanes Basin, Chile

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 80, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 357-375

  Hubbard, Stephen M ^a   Fildani, Andrea ^b   Romans, Brian W ^b   Covault, Jacob A ^b   McHargue, Timothy R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; SANDSTONE; TOPOGRAPHY;

DELTAIC DEPOSITS; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; MASS WASTING; REMOBILIZATION; ROCK RECORDS; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTARY BODIES; SLOPE PROFILE;

SEDIMENTS;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRETACEOUS; DEEP WATER; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; FOREARC BASIN; MASS TRANSPORT; MUDSTONE; PALEOGENE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILTSTONE;

AUSTRAL BASIN; CHILE;

EID: 77953832614     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2010.042     Document Type: Article

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