Response of the Strickland and Fly River confluence to postglacial sea level rise

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lauer, J Wesley ^a   Parker, Gary ^b   Dietrich, William E ^c  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLUENCE; INCISED VALLEY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POSTGLACIAL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT YIELD; TRIBUTARY;

FLY RIVER; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; STRICKLAND RIVER; WESTERN PROVINCE [PAPUA NEW GUINEA];

EID: 44449156285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000626     Document Type: Article

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