Buried fluvial channels off New Jersey: Did sea-level lowstands expose the entire shelf during the Miocene?

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 203-206

  Fulthorpe, Craig S ^a   Austin, James A ^a   Mountain, Gregory S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CLINOFORMS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLUVIAL CHANNELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MIOCENE; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; NEW JERSEY; PROGRADATION; SEISMIC PROFILES; SHELF EDGES;

SEA LEVEL;

BURIED STRUCTURE; CHANNEL; CONTINENTAL SHELF; LOWSTAND; MIOCENE;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879889531     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0203:BFCONJ>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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