Holocene and modern sediment budgets for the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system: Evidence for highstand dispersal to flood-plain, shelf, and deep-sea depocenters

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 559-562

  Goodbred, Steven L ^a   Kuehl, Steven A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; FLOODS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; RIVERS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; DEEP SEA; DEPOCENTERS; DOWN-STREAM; FLOOD PLAINS; GAGING STATIONS; HOLOCENES; RIVER SYSTEMS; SEDIMENT BUDGETS; SHELF SEAS;

SEDIMENTS;

HIGHSTAND; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; GANGES-BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER;

EID: 84879886000     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0559:HAMSBF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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