Controls on sedimentation in distal margin palaeovalleys in the early tertiary alpine foreland basin, south-eastern France

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 357-384

  Gupta, Sanjeev ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alps; Fluvial aggradation; Foreland basin; Palaeovalley; Sediment supply

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; VALLEY;

FRANCE;

EID: 0033065608     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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