Holocene sediments and molluscan faunas of Bahía Concepción: A modern analog to Neogene rift basins of the Gulf of California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 318, Issue , 1997, Pages 39-56

  Meldahl, Keith H ^a   Yajimovich, Oscar Gonzalez ^b   Empedocles, Christina D ^a   Gustafson, Christofer S ^a   Hidalgo, Manuel Motolinia ^b   Reardon, Timothy W ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; DEPOSITS; FAULTING; MOLLUSCS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WETLANDS;

CARBONATE SEDIMENTS; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; HOLOCENE TRANSGRESSION; NORMAL FAULT ZONES; SHALLOW WATER CARBONATES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT;

SEDIMENTS;

COASTAL ZONE; GRABEN; HOLOCENE; MOLLUSC; NEOGENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER; SHELL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSGRESSION;

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; CONCEPCION BAY [BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR]; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; LORETO BAY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84870790520     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2318-3.39     Document Type: Article

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