Strata Preservation on the Inner Eel River Shelf, Northern California

Abstract

The long-term objective within the STRATAFORM research program is to investigate the processes that lead to the genesis, modification, and burial of fine-scale stratification in continental shelf sediments. The approach is to: a) sample the continental shelf immediately after events and at closely spaced intervals thereafter, to monitor the shorter term (months to years) changes that modify the distribution and character of event layers and b) examine the preserved stratigraphy in the upper few meters of the seabed to examine the characteristics and fate of event layers over the longer term (10 - 1,000 years).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA626055

Entities

People

  • Jeffry C. Borgeld

Organizations

  • California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Continental Shelves
  • Earth Sciences
  • Electronic Mail
  • Floods
  • Geology
  • High Resolution
  • Information Operations
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Intervals
  • Layers
  • Leading Edges
  • Personality
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Seabed
  • Sediments
  • Stratigraphy

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Oceanography.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space