Petrologic database to define the human-reworked, sediment-deficient plain of the Rio Grande delta, Texas

Environmental Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 37-53

  Stanley, Jean Daniel ^a   Randazzo, Giovanni ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dams; Gulf coast; Irrigation; Organic matter; Water diversion

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; EROSION; IRRIGATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SEDIMENTS; TRANSPORTATION; WATER;

PETROLOGIC DATABASES;

PETROLOGY;

DAM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IRRIGATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PETROLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035526342     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002540100390     Document Type: Article

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