Late-Pleistocene to Holocene sedimentary fills of the Çinarcik Basin of the Sea of Marmara

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 281, Issue , 2012, Pages 151-165

  Eriş, K Kadir ^a   Çaǧatay, Namik ^b   Beck, Christian ^c   Mercier de Lepinay, Bernard ^d   Corina, Campos ^c  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Mass flow; Sea of Marmara; Seismic stratigraphy; Seismoturbidite

Indexed keywords

BED LOAD; COARSE-GRAINED; DEEP BASIN; GRAIN SEGREGATION; HOLOCENES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MASS-FLOW; PISTON CORES; SEA OF MARMARA; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMOTURBIDITE; SHARP BOUNDARIES; TURBULENT SUSPENSION;

DEPOSITS; GRAVITATION; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

DEPOSITION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; LITHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITE;

CINARCIK BASIN; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 84868301135     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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