The late Cretaceous to Holocene sequence stratigraphy of a sheared passive upper continental margin, northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Marine Geology

Volumn 289, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 17-28

  Green, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Continental shelf; Sequence stratigraphy; Sheared passive margin; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DELTAIC DEPOSITS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; INTERNAL GEOMETRY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE PLIOCENE; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MID-PLIOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PARTIAL SEQUENCES; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL; SEISMIC DATAS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW MARINE; SHEARED PASSIVE MARGIN; SHEET-LIKE; SHELF BREAK; SHELF EDGES; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SOUTH AFRICA; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; SYSTEMS TRACTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SEPARATION;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BYPASS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRETACEOUS; GEOMETRY; HIATUS; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEISMIC DATA; SHALLOW WATER; SHORELINE; TRANSGRESSION;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 80054691919     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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