Natural geomorphic variability recorded in a high-accommodation setting: Fluvial architecture of the Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation of Atlantic Canada

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1230-1251

  Rygel, Michael C ^a,b   Gibling, Martin R ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DEPOSITS; DRAINAGE; FLOODS; RIVERS; SUBSIDENCE; WETLANDS;

DRAINAGE NETWORKS; EXTRINSIC CONTROL; EXTRINSIC FACTORS; FLOODPLAIN DEPOSITS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE; JOGGINS FORMATION; MEANDERING CHANNEL;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

CHANNEL; COASTAL WETLAND; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FACIES; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845653088     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2006.100     Document Type: Article

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