Fluvial clastic sediment yield in Canada: Scaled analysis

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1267-1280

  Church, Michael ^a   Ham, Darren ^a   Hassan, Marwan ^a,b   Slaymaker, Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CANADA;

EID: 0033504219     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-034     Document Type: Article

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