Sediment facies and Late Holocene progradation of the Mekong River Delta in Bentre Province, southern Vietnam: An example of evolution from a tide-dominated to a tide- and wave-dominated delta

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 152, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 313-325

  Ta, Thi Kim Oanh ^a   Nguyen, Van Lap ^a   Tateishi, Masaaki ^b   Kobayashi, Iwao ^b   Saito, Yoshiki ^c   Nakamura, Toshio ^d  

^a National Centre for Natural Science and Technology   (Viet Nam)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bentre Province; Delta evolution; Delta facies; Holocene; Mekong River Delta; Progradation rate

Indexed keywords

DELTAIC DEPOSIT; FACIES; HOLOCENE; PROGRADATION; TIDE; WAVE;

VIET NAM;

EID: 0036784858     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00098-2     Document Type: Article

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