Impact of relative sea level and rapid climate changes on the architecture and lithofacies of the Holocene Rhone subaqueous delta (Western Mediterranean Sea)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 305, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-53

  Fanget, Anne Sophie ^a   Berné, Serge ^a,b   Jouet, Gwénaël ^b   Bassetti, Maria Angela ^a   Dennielou, Bernard ^b   Maillet, Grégoire M ^c   Tondut, Mathieu ^a  

^a Université de Perpignan Via Domitia Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens CEFREM UMR 5110 CNRS   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

Delta; Holocene; Maximum Flooding Surface; Sea level; Tempestites; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STABILIZATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACES;

DELTA; HOLOCENES; MAXIMUM FLOODING SURFACES; TEMPESTITES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOCENTER; HOLOCENE; LAST DEGLACIATION; LITHOFACIES; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOFLOOD; PARASEQUENCE; PREBOREAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEMPESTITE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

FRANCE; GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST); RHONE DELTA;

EID: 84897408294     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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