Models of deltaic and inner continental shelf landform evolution

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue , 2007, Pages 685-715

  Fagherazzi, Sergio ^a   Overeem, Irina ^b,c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta; Geomorphology; Sediment transport; Simulations; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMICS;

LANDFORMS;

BARRIER ISLAND; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DELTA; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 34250650824     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.35.031306.140128     Document Type: Article

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