Scale-dependent compensational stacking: An estimate of autogenic time scales in channelized sedimentary deposits

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 811-814

  Wang, Yinan ^a   Straub, Kyle M ^a   Hajek, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATIONAL STACKING; EXPERIMENTAL CHANNELS; FORCINGS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; OBJECT-BASED MODELS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SPATIAL SCALE; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; WYOMING , UNITED STATES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

AGGRADATION; OUTCROP; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

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EID: 80053997790     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32068.1     Document Type: Article

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