A model for cutting and healing of deltaic mouth bars at the shelf edge: Mechanism for Basin-Margin Accretion

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 284-299

  Dixon, Joshua F ^a   Steel, Ronald J ^a   Olariu, Cornel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo ecology   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEWATERING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SANDSTONE; SCOUR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIGRAPHY;

DELTAIC DEPOSITS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; MOUTH-BAR DEPOSITS; STACKING PATTERNS; TURBIDITY CURRENT; UNDEFORMED SANDSTONES;

DEPOSITS;

ACCRETION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; MASS TRANSPORT; MUDSTONE; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SANDSTONE; SCOUR; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84876725048     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2013.25     Document Type: Article

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