Revision of platte river alluvial facies model through observations of extant channels and barforms, and subsurface alluvial valley fills

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 72-91

  Horn, John D ^a   Fielding, Christopher R ^a   Joeckel, R M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; DATA STREAMS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; SCOUR; STRATIGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CROSS-STREAM MIGRATION; FACIES ARCHITECTURE; GEOMORPHIC MAPPING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SUBSURFACE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; VEGETATED CHANNELS;

RIVERS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BRAIDED RIVER; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CROSS-BEDDING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HOLOCENE; SCOUR; SEDIMENT CORE; STRATIFICATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; VALLEY FILL;

GRAND ISLAND; NEBRASKA; PLATTE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859242343     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2012.9     Document Type: Article

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