Reconstructing the ancestral (Plio-Pleistocene) Rio Grande in its active tectonic setting, southern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico, USA

Sedimentology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 701-720

  Perez Arlucea, Marta ^a   Mack, Greg ^b   Leeder, Mike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active rifting; Avulsions; Fault growth; Fluvial; Palaeohydraulics

Indexed keywords

AVULSION; BEDFORM; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RIVER CHANNEL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033929785     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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