Variability of channel-belt dimensions and the consequences for alluvial architecture: Observations from the Holocene Rhine-Meuse Delta (The Netherlands) and Lower Mississippi Valley (U.S.A.)

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 124-138

  Gouw, Marc J P ^a   Berendsen, Henk J A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

ALLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE; COMMON FEATURES; DOMINATING FACTORS; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; FLUVIO-DELTAIC; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; RHINE-MEUSE DELTAS;

EROSION;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BANK EROSION; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; ERODIBILITY; GEOMETRY; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; STREAM BED;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NETHERLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34447281771     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.013     Document Type: Article

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