Paleobathymetry and sequence stratigraphic interpretations from benthic foraminifera: Insights on New Jersey shelf architecture, IODP Expedition 313

Geosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1488-1513

  Katz, Miriam E ^a   Browning, James V ^b   Miller, Kenneth G ^b   Monteverde, Donald H ^b,c   Mountain, Gregory S ^b   Williams, Ross H ^a,d  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c New Jersey Geological Survey   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES; HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS TRACT; INDIVIDUAL SEQUENCES; INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; SEQUENCE-STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION; SHORT-TERM VARIATIONS;

SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

COASTAL ZONES;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EOCENE; MIOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PARASEQUENCE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT; TRANSGRESSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NEW JERSEY SHELF;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84889675272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00872.1     Document Type: Article

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