Modeling of a mixed-load fluvio-deltaic system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Geleynse, N ^a   Storms, J E A ^a   Stive, M J F ^a   Jagers, H R A ^b   Walstra, D J R ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL DYNAMICS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; FLUVIO-DELTAIC; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-FIELD; LABORATORY STUDIES; PHYSICS-BASED; SEDIMENT FRACTION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRATIGRAPHY;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALTIMETER; DELTA; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 77949282679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042000     Document Type: Article

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