Storm and fair-weather wave base: A relevant distinction?

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 511-514

  Peters, Shanan E ^a   Loss, Dylan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DENSITY ESTIMATES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GULF OF MEXICO; MODAL WAVELENGTHS; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SHALLOW MARINE; SIZE CLASS; STORM WAVES; SURFACE OCEAN; TIME-AVERAGED; TIME-SCALES; UNIMODAL; WATER DEPTH; WAVE PENETRATION; WESTERN ATLANTIC;

INTERFACE STATES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE SEPARATION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; STORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

WATER WAVES;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN WAVE; OPEN OCEAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STORM; SURFACE WAVE; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84864300682     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32791.1     Document Type: Article

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