Holocene valley aggradation driven by river mouth progradation: Examples from Australia

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1510-1524

  Rustomji, Paul ^a,b   Olley, Jon ^b   Chappell, John ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Estuary; Floodplain; Progradation

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

FLOODPLAIN; PROGRADATION; RIVER MOUTHS;

RIVERS;

ESTUARIES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

AGGRADATION; CHANNEL FLOW; ESTUARY; FLOODPLAIN; PROGRADATION; RIVER; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VALLEY GLACIER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33750420029     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1359     Document Type: Article

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