Evolution of the Holocene Mississippi River floodplain, Ferriday, Louisiana: Insights on the origin of fine-grained floodplains

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 800-815

  Aslan, Andres ^a   Autin, Whitney J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; AVULSION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032755451     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/D4268A95-2B26-11D7-8648000102C1865D     Document Type: Article

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