Early growth stage of a large delta - Transformation from estuarine-platform to deltaic-progradational conditions (the northeastern Mekong River Delta, Vietnam)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 261-262, Issue , 2012, Pages 108-119

  Hanebuth, Till J J ^a   Proske, Ulrike ^a,d   Saito, Yoshiki ^b   Nguyen, Van Lap ^c   Ta, Thi Kim Oanh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Delta evolution; Holocene; Mekong River delta; Sea level changes; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

DELTA EVOLUTION; HOLOCENES; MEKONG RIVER; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

ABRASION; DEPOSITS; SEA LEVEL;

ESTUARIES;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DELTA; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

MEKONG RIVER; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84860296699     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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