Sustained alluvial aggradation and autogenic detachment of the alluvial river from the shoreline in response to steady fall of relative sea level

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 98-111

  Petter, Andrew L ^a   Muto, Tetsuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION; CONSTANT CONDITIONS; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; GEOMETRIC MODELING; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE; SHORELINE POSITION;

SEA LEVEL;

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; GLACIOEUSTACY; LOWSTAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROGRADATION; QUATERNARY; REGRESSION; SHORELINE;

AUSTRALASIA; CANTERBURY PLAINS; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 39549106263     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2008.012     Document Type: Article

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