Holocene stratigraphy of the lower Ganges-Brahmaputra river delta in Bangladesh

Frontiers of Earth Science in China

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 393-399

  Khan, Sirajur Rahman ^a   Islam, Badrul ^b  

^a Geological Survey of Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

^b Bangladesh Army University of Engineering and Technology   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Abandoned meander belt; Bil depression; Estuarine plain; Holocene sediment thickness; Interdistributary plain; Levee

Indexed keywords

CLAY; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL ZONE; DELTA; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; MEANDER; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIVER BASIN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE;

BANGLADESH; BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN; GANGES DELTA;

EID: 58049207898     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-008-0051-8     Document Type: Article

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