Process-response modelling of fluvio-deltaic stratigraphy

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1394-1416

  Hoogendoorn, Robert M ^a   Overeem, Irina ^a,b   Storms, Joep E A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta development; Event based; Kura delta; Numerical model; Visual basic

Indexed keywords

EROSION; EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER LEVELS;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; APPLIED (CO); CASPIAN SEA; DISCHARGE MODELING; ELSEVIER (CO); EROSION AND DEPOSITION; EVOLUTION (CO); GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALES; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); MORPHODYNAMIC MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PROBABILISTIC OUTPUT; REAL WORLD; RUN TIME; SEDIMENT SIZE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION; SIZE CLASSES; SYNTHETIC DATA; TEACHING TOOLS; TIME SCALING; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS; TWO DIMENSIONS;

SEDIMENTATION;

DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITION; EROSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GRAIN SIZE; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; AZERBAIJAN; CASPIAN SEA; EURASIA; KURA DELTA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 47749136186     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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