Model shows that rivers transmit high-frequency climate cycles to the sedimentary record

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1131-1134

  Simpson, Guy ^a   Castelltort, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL GRADIENTS; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MARINE SEDIMENTARY BASIN; PHYSICALLY BASED; RIVER SYSTEMS; RIVER TRANSPORTS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENT-ROUTING; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SOURCE TO SINKS; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; WATER DISCHARGES;

CLIMATE MODELS; FEEDBACK; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISCHARGE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

EID: 84872126343     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33451.1     Document Type: Article

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