Gravel waves in an ancient canyon: Analogous features and formative processes of coarse-grained bedforms in a submarine-fan system, the lower Pleistocene of the Boso Peninsula, Japan

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1274-1283

  Ito, Makoto ^a   Saito, Takahiro ^a,b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TEXTURES; TURBIDITY;

COARSE-GRAINED; COARSE-GRAINED DEPOSITS; DEPOSITIONAL EVENT; LOWER DENSITY; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; SUBMARINE FANS; TURBIDITY CURRENT; WAVE FORMS;

GRAVEL;

BEDFORM; CANYON; PLEISTOCENE; SUBMARINE FAN; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

ASIA; BOSO PENINSULA; CHIBA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO;

EID: 84862487634     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2006.093     Document Type: Article

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