A Late Pleistocene-Holocene wetland megafan in the Brazilian Amazonia

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 276-293

  Rossetti, D F ^a   Zani, H ^a   Cohen, M C L ^b   Cremon, É H ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Facies model; Late Pleistocene Holocene; Monsoonal climate; Residual morphology; Tectonic subsidence; Tropical wetland megafan

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CHANNELS; BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA; CLIMATE REGIME; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; HIGH WATER; HOLOCENES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; MEGAFANS; MONSOONAL CLIMATE; MORPHOLOGICAL DATA; NEAR-SURFACE; RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS; SAND SHEET; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SPACE AND TIME; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TRANSVERSE PROFILE; TROPICAL WETLAND; WET SEASON;

REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

DRAINAGE NETWORK; DROUGHT; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MONSOON; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; WETLAND;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 84870447671     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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