Recycling sediments between source and sink during a eustatic cycle: Systems of late Quaternary northwestern Gulf of Mexico Basin

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 153, Issue , 2016, Pages 111-138

  Anderson, John B ^a   Wallace, Davin J ^b   Simms, Alexander R ^c   Rodriguez, Antonio B ^d   Weight, Robert W R ^e   Taha, Z Patrick ^f  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e BHP BILLITON   (United States)

^f CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eustastic cycle; Gulf of Mexico; Late Quaternary; Source to sink

Indexed keywords

BORING; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; EUSTACY; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZOS RIVER; COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA SHELF; MISSISSIPPI CANYON; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; TEXAS; TEXAS SHELF; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960119239     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.10.014     Document Type: Review

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