Integrating modern seafloor and outcrop data in the analysis of slope channel architecture and fill

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-103

  Gamberi, Fabiano ^a   Rovere, Marzia ^a   Dykstra, Mason ^b   Kane, Ian A ^b   Kneller, Benjamin C ^c  

^a ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Internal levee; Lateral accretion deposit; Sinuous thalweg; Slope channel geomorphology; Slope channel stratigraphy; Slope channels hierarchy

Indexed keywords

BAJA CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ARCHITECTURE; CHANNEL ELEMENTS; CHANNEL FILLS; COARSE GRAINS; COARSE-GRAINED; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GRAINED SEDIMENTS; HIERARCHICAL ELEMENTS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LATERAL ACCRETIONS; OUTCROP DATA; SEA FLOOR; SINUOUS THALWEG; SLOPE CHANNELS HIERARCHY; SMALL SCALE; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; SUBMARINE SLOPES; TYPE II; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

DEPOSITS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HYDROCARBONS; LEVEES; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DATA INTEGRATION;

ACCRETION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; OUTCROP; SEAFLOOR; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE CHANNEL; SUBMARINE SLOPE; THALWEG;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 84873994032     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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