Controls on platform-scale patterns of surface sediments, shallow Holocene platforms, Bahamas

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1545-1565

  Rankey, Eugene C ^a   Reeder, Stacy lynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahamas; Carbonate sediments; Carbonate supersaturation; Hydrodynamics; Isolated platform

Indexed keywords

BAHAMAS; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CARBONATE SEDIMENTS; CARBONATE SYSTEM; COMPOSITE GRAINS; CURRENT SPEED; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL CONTROL; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GEOLOGICAL HISTORY; HOLOCENES; ISOLATED PLATFORM; MUDDY SEDIMENTS; SCALE PATTERN; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SENSING DATA; SIZE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TIDAL CURRENTS; WAVE ENERGY;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRUITS; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUPERSATURATION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; TIDES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ACCUMULATION; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CARBONATE SYSTEM; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; HYDRODYNAMICS; PETROGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SUPERSATURATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL CURRENT; WAVE ENERGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CAICOS PLATFORM; CARIBBEAN SEA; GREAT BAHAMA BANK;

EID: 77956636841     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01155.x     Document Type: Article

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