Middle to Late Miocene slope failure and the generation of a regional unconformity beneath the Western Scotian Slope, Eastern Canada

Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 4th International Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 645-655

  Campbell, D C ^a,b   Mosher, D C ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottom currents; Mass transport deposit; Salt tectonics; Unconformity

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; EROSION; SUBMARINES;

BOTTOM CURRENT; CONTINENTAL RISE; EASTERN CANADA; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHWEST ATLANTIC; OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; UNCONFORMITY;

SALT TECTONICS;

EID: 79960397387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3071-9_52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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