Hydrodynamic and geomorphic controls on mouth bar evolution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1540-1545

  Esposito, Christopher R ^a,b   Georgiou, Ioannis Y ^a   Kolker, Alexander S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

crevasse splay; Mississippi River Delta; mouth bar dynamics; sediment dynamics

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL BIFURCATION; COARSE GRAINS; CREVASSE SPLAY; GEOMORPHIC CONTROLS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS;

COASTAL ZONES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTS;

BAR; CREVASSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877979734     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50333     Document Type: Article

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