Base-level buffers and buttresses: A model for upstream versus downstream control on fluvial geometry and architecture within sequences

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 162-174

  Holbrook, John ^a   Scott, Robert W ^b   Oboh Ikuenobe, Francisca E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Precision Stratigraphy Associates   (United States)

^c MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; LANDFORMS; LEVEL CONTROL; STRATIGRAPHY;

BASIN PHYSIOGRAPHY; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DOWNSTREAM CHANNELS; HIGH FREQUENCY VARIABILITIES; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; PHYSICAL BARRIERS; POTENTIAL PROFILES; SEQUENCE ARCHITECTURES;

RIVERS;

FLUVIAL PROCESS; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 33644827588     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2005.10     Document Type: Article

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