Alluvial architecture of the Holocene Rhine-Meuse delta (the Netherlands)

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1487-1516

  Gouw, Marc J P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alluvial architecture; Borings; Channel belt deposit proportion; Connectedness ratio; Fluvial stratigraphy; Model parameters

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DELTA; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 52249098641     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00954.x     Document Type: Article

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