Compression behaviour of minerogenic low energy intertidal sediments

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 233, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 28-41

  Brain, Matthew J ^a   Long, Antony J ^a   Petley, David N ^a   Horton, Benjamin P ^b   Allison, Robert J ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autocompaction; Compression; Intertidal sediments; Mudflat; Salt marsh; Sea level

Indexed keywords

AUTO-COMPACTION; COMPRESSION; INTERTIDAL SEDIMENTS; MUDFLATS; SALT MARSH;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPRESSION TESTING; GROUNDWATER; MODELS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; WETLANDS; YIELD STRESS;

DATA COMPRESSION;

COMPACTION; COMPRESSION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HOLOCENE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TIDAL FLAT;

COWPEN MARSH; ENGLAND; REDCAR AND CLEVELAND; TEES ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78650589599     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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