Investigating plan-view asymmetry in wave-influenced deltas

River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2007 - Proceedings of the 5th IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 681-688

  Ashton, A D ^a   Giosan, L ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA DEVELOPMENT; FIRST-ORDER; MODELING APPROACH; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODELING; RELATIVE RATES; RIVER DELTAS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; WAVE CLIMATES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTUARIES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

RIVERS;

EID: 84858125802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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