Nile Delta's sinking past: Quantifiable links with Holocene compaction and climate-driven changes in sediment supply?

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1083-1086

  Marriner, Nick ^a   Flaux, Clément ^b   Morhange, Christophe ^b   Kaniewski, David ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC DATA; EXTREME FLOOD EVENTS; FOOD PRODUCTION; HOLOCENES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MASS BALANCE; NILE DELTA; REGIONAL SCALE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SURFACE DYNAMICS;

COMPACTION; DIGITAL STORAGE; FLOODS; LAKES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SUBSIDENCE;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUBSIDENCE;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

EID: 84872147601     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33209.1     Document Type: Article

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