Decimeter-scale in situ mapping of modern cross-bedded dune deposits using parametric echo sounding: A new method for linking river processes and their deposits

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3883-3887

  Sambrook Smith, Gregory H ^a   Best, James L ^b   Orfeo, Oscar ^c   Vardy, Mark E ^d   Zinger, Jessica A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Centro de Ecologia Aplicada del Littoral   (Argentina)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dunes; Parametric Echo Sounder (PES); Rio Parana; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

BOUNDING SURFACES; DUNES; ECHO SOUNDERS; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; HIGH-RESOLUTION DATUM; RIO PARANA; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURVEYS;

DEPOSITS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; DUNE FIELD; ECHO SOUNDER; FLOW FIELD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT; SURVEYING;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 84880905695     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50703     Document Type: Article

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