Tracking sedimentation from the historic A.D. 2011 Mississippi River flood in the deltaic wetlands of Louisiana, USA

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 391-394

  Khan, Nicole S ^a   Horton, Benjamin P ^a   McKee, Karen L ^b   Jerolmack, Douglas ^a   Falcini, Federico ^a,c   Enache, Mihaela D ^d   Vane, Christopher H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MONITORING STATIONS; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; WETLANDS;

FLOODS;

BIOINDICATOR; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DIATOM; FLOOD; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LITHOLOGY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; STRATIGRAPHY; WETLAND;

ATCHAFALAYA DELTA; BARATARIA BASIN; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; TERREBONNE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

COSCINODISCOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84875518930     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33805.1     Document Type: Article

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