Dual mechanisms for the formation of fluvial silcretes in the distal reaches of the Okavango Delta Fan, Botswana

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 705-714

  Shaw, Paul A ^a   Nash, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DURICRUST; FLUVIAL PROCESS; SILCRETE;

BOTSWANA; OKAVANGO DELTA;

EID: 0031732161     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199808)23:8<705::AID-ESP875>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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