Continental shelves as sediment capacitors or conveyors: Source-to-sink insights from the tectonically active Oceanside shelf, southern California, USA

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 315-326

  Covault, Jacob A ^a   Fildani, Andrea ^a  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; SHELF SEDIMENT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TRANSGRESSION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929866779     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M41.23     Document Type: Article

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