Slopes

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2012, Pages 607-642

  Hubbard, Stephen M ^a   MacEachern, James A ^b   Bann, Kerrie L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Ichnofacies Analysis Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basin margin slopes; Continental slopes; Mass transport deposits; Turbidites; Zoophycos Ichnofacies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868609674     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53813-0.00020-4     Document Type: Chapter

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