Tectonic and climatic influence on the evolution of the Surveyor Fan and channel system, Gulf of Alaska

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 830-844

  Reece, Robert S ^a   Gulick, Sean P S ^a   Horton, Brian K ^a   Christeson, Gail L ^a   Worthington, Lindsay L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE CHANNEL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SAINT ELIAS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 80054741524     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00654.1     Document Type: Article

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