The significance of large sediment supply, active tectonism, and eustasy on margin sequence development: Late Quaternary stratigraphy and evolution of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 133, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 227-248

  Goodbred Jr , S L ^a   Kuehl, S A ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Bengal Basin; Deltas; Himalayas; River discharge; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DELTA; EUSTACY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

INDIA;

EID: 0343932575     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(00)00041-5     Document Type: Article

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