Late Quaternary morphogenesis of a marine-limit delta plain in southwest Maine

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 351, Issue , 2001, Pages 125-149

  Tary, Anna K ^a,b   Fitz Gerald, Duncan M ^a   Buynevich, Ilya V ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; SAND; SEDIMENTS;

CHANNEL FILLS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE INCURSION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT SORTING;

LANDFORMS;

DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MORPHOGENESIS; QUATERNARY; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SORTING;

EID: 84871336688     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2351-5.125     Document Type: Article

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