Variability of Holocene to Late Pleistocene Zambezi riverine sedimentation at the upper continental slope off Mozambique, 15°-21°S

Marine Geology

Volumn 286, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 21-34

  Schulz, Hartmut ^a   Lückge, Andreas ^b   Emeis, Kay Christian ^c   Mackensen, Andreas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coarse fraction; Continental slope; Glacial interglacial; Grain size; Mozambique Strait; Sediment distribution; Zambezi River

Indexed keywords

COARSE FRACTIONS; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; GRAIN SIZE; MOZAMBIQUE; SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION; ZAMBEZI RIVER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

RIVERS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP SEA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; LAST GLACIAL; LITHIC FRAGMENT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

INDIAN OCEAN; MADAGASCAR; MOZAMBIQUE; MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL; ZAMBEZI RIVER;

EID: 80051573889     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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