Sediment-budget modelling of multi-sourced basin fills: Application to recent deposits of the western Adriatic mud wedge (Italy)

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 291-308

  Weltje, Gert Jan ^a   Brommer, Marit B ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Royal Haskoning DHV   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BASIN FILL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOSTATISTICS; GRAIN SIZE; MUD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT PROPERTY;

ADIGE RIVER; ITALY; PO RIVER;

EID: 79955047677     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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