Sea-level- and gas-hydrate-controlled catastrophic sediment failures of the Amazon Fan

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1107-1110

  Maslin, Mark ^a   Mikkelsen, Naja ^b   Vilela, Claudia ^c   Haq, Bilal ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); GAS HYDRATES; HYDRATION; SEDIMENTS;

CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; FORAMINIFERAL FAUNAS; GAS HYDRATE RESERVOIR; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; MAXIMUM THICKNESS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS;

SEA LEVEL;

GAS HYDRATE; MASS TRANSPORT; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE FAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879883066     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<1107:SLAGHC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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