Occurrence of hyperpycnal flows and hybrid event beds related to glacial outburst events in a late ordovician proglacial delta (Murzuq Basin, Sw Libya)

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 688-708

  Girard, Flavia ^a   Ghienne, Jean Franç Ois ^a   Rubino, Jean Loup ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY;

CROSS STRATIFICATIONS; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; FLOOD HYDROGRAPHS; FLOW TRANSFORMATIONS; GLACIAL OUTBURST FLOODS; HYPERPYCNAL FLOWS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SHALLOW-WATER DELTAS;

SEDIMENTS;

DEBRIS FLOW; DELTA; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; GLACIAL LAKE; ORDOVICIAN; OUTBURST; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PROGRADATION; RIVER FLOW; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION;

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MURZUQ BASIN;

EID: 84867436968     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2012.61     Document Type: Article

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