Response of coastal plain rivers to falling relative sea-level: Allogenic controls on the aggradational phase

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 207-221

  Swenson, John B ^a   Muto, Tetsuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal prism; Fluviodeltaic system; Moving boundary problem; Relative sea level; Sequence boundary; Stratigraphic modelling

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; COASTAL PLAIN; FLUME EXPERIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 33846334077     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00830.x     Document Type: Article

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