Sinking deltas due to human activities

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 681-686

  Syvitski, James P M ^a   Kettner, Albert J ^a   Overeem, Irina ^a   Hutton, Eric W H ^a   Hannon, Mark T ^a   Brakenridge, G Robert ^b   Day, John ^c   Vörösmarty, Charles ^d   Saito, Yoshiki ^e   Giosan, Liviu ^f   Nicholls, Robert J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 70349767045     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo629     Document Type: Article

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