Late Ordovician climbing-dune cross-stratification: A signature of outburst floods in proglacial outwash environments?

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1175-1198

  Ghienne, Jean François ^a   Girard, Flavia ^a   Moreau, Julien ^a   Rubino, Jean Loup ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Fluvioglacial; J kulhlaup; Megaripples; Meltwater; Murzuq Basin; Sediment concentration; Suspended load

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; FLUVIOGLACIAL; MEGARIPPLES; MELTWATER; MURZUQ BASIN; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SUSPENDED LOADS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EROSION; FLOODS; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS; RIVERS; SAND; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

BEDFORM; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DUNE; EROSION; FLOOD; FORELAND BASIN; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MELTWATER; ORDOVICIAN; OUTWASH; RIPPLE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIFICATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MURZUQ BASIN;

EID: 77955233491     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01142.x     Document Type: Article

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