Offshore Tractive Current Deposition. The Forgotten Tsunami Sedimentation Process

Tsunamiites - Features and Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 153-161

  Dawson, A G ^a   Stewart, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-51552-0.00010-2     Document Type: Chapter

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