Abstract

First Paragraph

The STRATAFORM program sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (Nittrouer and Kravitz, 1996, this issue) seeks to understand how sedimentary processes lead to the formation of the stratigraphic sequences on continental margins. A central challenge facing this effort is to understand the transport of sediments in shore-parallel as well as shore-perpendicular directions• Multidimensionality is necessary to describe, for example, the accumulation of sediments from river inputs, the distribution of gullies and canyons on the slope, the meandering of channels, and the structure of slumps and slides.

Department

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Affiliate

Publication Date

7-1996

Publisher

Oceanography Society

Journal Title

Oceanography

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.5670/oceanog.1996.07

Document Type

Article

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