Dead delta's former productivity two trillon shells at the mouth of the Colorado River

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1059-1062

  Kowalewski, M ^a   Avilla Serrano, G E ^a   Flessa, K W ^a   Goodfriend, G A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado River; Estuary; Holocene; Paleoecology; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ESTUARIES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MOLLUSCS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY; RIVER BASIN PROJECTS;

AMINO ACID RACEMIZATIONS; BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES; COLORADO RIVER; HOLOCENES; MOUTH OF THE COLORADO RIVERS; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITIES; SATELLITE IMAGE DATAS;

RIVER DIVERSION;

DELTA; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; ESTUARY; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY;

COLORADO RIVER DELTA; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84879887562     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<1059:DDFPTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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