Grain-size sorting on grainflows at the lee side of deltas

Sedimentology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 291-311

  Kleinhans, Maarten G ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Delta; Dune; Fining upward; Grainflow; Kinematic sieving; Vertical sorting

Indexed keywords

DELTA; GRAIN SIZE; SORTING;

EID: 17444416670     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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