Signatures of sea level changes on tidal geomorphology: Experiments on network incision and retreat

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Stefanon, Luana ^a   Carniello, Luca ^a   D'Alpaos, Andrea ^a   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEA LEVEL;

CHANNEL CROSS SECTION; CYCLIC VARIATIONS; DRAINAGE DENSITY; FORCINGS; INFLUENCE NETWORKS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; RE-EXPANSION; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIDAL PRISM;

PRISMS;

COASTAL LANDFORM; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIDAL CYCLE;

EID: 84862897437     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051953     Document Type: Article

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