Deposits of a rapidly eroding meandering river: Terrace cut and fill in the Taupo Volcanic Zone

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 243-249

  Woolfe, Ken J ^a   Purdon, Richard G ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cut and fill; Meander loops; River terraces; Taupo Pumice Alluvium

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIUM; CUT AND FILL; DEPOSITION; MEANDER; RIVER TERRACE;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 0029749865     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1996.9514708     Document Type: Article

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