Pleistocene stratigraphy in the southern Lower Mississippi Valley

Engineering Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 87-112

  Autin, Whitney J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ALLUVIATION; EROSIONAL LANDSCAPES; LITHOFACIES; PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY; QUATERNARY LANDSCAPE; STRATIGRAPHY;

USA, MISSISSIPPI VALLEY (LOWER);

EID: 0030392307     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7952(96)00009-9     Document Type: Article

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