Morphologic and stratigraphic evolution of muddy ebb-tidal deltas along a subsiding coast: Barataria Bay, Mississippi River delta

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1157-1178

  Fitzgerald, Duncan M ^a   Kulp, Mark ^b   Penland, Shea ^b   Flocks, James ^c   Kindinger, Jack ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal deposits; Ebb tidal delta; Tidal inlet; Tidal prism

Indexed keywords

BARRIER ISLAND; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; FAN DELTA; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE; TIDAL INLET;

BARATARIA BAY; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11144252800     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00663.x     Document Type: Article

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