Subaqueous delta of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system

Marine Geology

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 81-96

  Kuehl, Steven A ^a   Levy, Beth M ^a   Moore, Willard S ^b   Allison, Mead A ^c  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bay of Bengal; Brahmaputra River; Delta; Ganges River; Sediment budget; Seismic reflection profiling; Shelf sedimentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031472039     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00075-3     Document Type: Article

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