A deep-time perspective of land-ocean linkages in the sedimentary record

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-94

  Romans, Brian W ^a   Graham, Stephan A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

depositional systems; Earth history; marine sedimentation; sedimentary basins; source to sink; stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; ENTIRE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; GEOLOGIC CONDITIONS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SOURCE TO SINKS; STATE OF THE ART;

CATCHMENTS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCUMULATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLISTIC APPROACH; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; SEA; SEDIMENT; TIME;

ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872310112     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-121211-172426     Document Type: Article

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