Backwater controls of avulsion location on deltas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chatanantavet, Phairot ^a   Lamb, Michael P ^a   Nittrouer, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER;

FLUVIO-DELTAIC; HAZARD MITIGATIONS; HIGH-FLOW EVENTS; HYDRODYNAMIC PROCESS; MORPHODYNAMIC MODELS; MORPHODYNAMICS; OVERBANK FLOW; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RIVER DELTAS; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RIVER PLUME; RIVER-BED SCOUR; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL NODES; TIME-SCALES; WATER SURFACE; WETLAND RESTORATION;

RIVERS;

AVULSION; BACKWATER; FAN DELTA; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHODYNAMICS; OVERBANK FLOW; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER BED; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RIVER PLUME; SCOUR; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SURFACE WATER; TIMESCALE; WETLAND;

EID: 84855690310     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050197     Document Type: Article

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