Spatial and temporal evolution of a permian submarine slope channel-levee system, Karoo Basin, South Africa

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 579-599

  Di Celma, Claudio N ^a,b   Brunt, Rufus L ^a   Hodgson, David M ^a   Flint, Stephen S ^a   Kavanagh, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; DEPOSITS; EMBANKMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LEVEES; SANDSTONE; SET THEORY; SUBMARINES;

ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT; CHANNEL-LEVEE COMPLEX; CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS TRACT; SEDIMENTATION PATTERN; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

BACKSTEPPING;

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES; LEVEE; MUDSTONE; PERMIAN; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE CHANNEL; SUBMARINE SLOPE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRANSGRESSION; TURBIDITE;

KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84860734566     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2011.49     Document Type: Article

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