How do we identify big rivers? And how big is big?

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 39-50

  Miall, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big river; Facies studies; Fluvial sedimentology; Provenance studies

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FACIES ANALYSIS; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 33645846605     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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