Braided rivers within an arid alluvial plain (example from the lower triassic, western german basin): Recognition criteria and expression of stratigraphic cycles

Sedimentology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2235-2264

  Bourquin, S ^a   Guillocheau, F ^a   Peron S ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Fluvial; Fluvial aeolian; Germanic Basin; Lower Triassic; Paris Basin; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; RATS; STRATIGRAPHY;

FLUVIAL; FLUVIAL-AEOLIAN; GERMANIC BASIN; LOWER TRIASSIC; PARIS BASIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; ARID ENVIRONMENT; BRAIDED RIVER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN PROCESS; EPHEMERAL LAKE; ERG; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL PROCESS; GROUNDWATER; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLAYA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TRIASSIC; WATER LEVEL;

FRANCE; GERMANIC BASIN; PARIS BASIN;

EID: 77955582329     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01078.x     Document Type: Article

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