Mass and hyperconcentrated flow deposits record dune damming and catastrophic breakthrough of ephemeral rivers, Skeleton Coast Erg, Namibia

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 160, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 7-31

  Svendsen, Johan ^a   Stollhofen, Harald ^b   Krapf, Carmen B E ^c   Stanistreet, Ian G ^d  

^a Denerco Oil   (Denmark)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dune damming; Ephemeral rivers; Fluvio aeolian interaction; Hyperconcentrated flows; Intra erg mass flows; Namibia

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; DUNE FIELD; EPHEMERAL STREAM; ERG; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; OVERTOPPING; SMECTITE;

NAMIBIA; SKELETON COAST;

EID: 0042123895     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00334-2     Document Type: Article

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