Scales and causes of heterogeneity in bars in a large multi-channel river: Río Paraná, Argentina

Sedimentology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1055-1085

  Reesink, Arnold J H ^a,b,k   Ashworth, Philip J ^a   Sambrook Smith, Gregory H ^b   Best, James L ^c   Parsons, Daniel R ^d   Amsler, Mario L ^e   Hardy, Richard J ^f   Lane, Stuart N ^g   Nicholas, Andrew P ^h   Orfeo, Oscar ⁱ   Sandbach, Steven D ^f,h   Simpson, Christopher J ^j   Szupiany, Ricardo N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Centro de Ecologia Aplicada del Litoral Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^j Fulcrum Graphic Communications Inc   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Bars; Channel deposits; Dunes; Facies models; GPR; Large rivers; R o paran

Indexed keywords

BARS (METAL); DEPOSITS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DUNES; FACIES MODELS; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LARGE RIVERS; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BAR; DEPOSITION; DUNE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HETEROGENEITY; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THALWEG;

ARGENTINA; PARAGUAY RIVER; PARANA RIVER;

EID: 84900563570     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12092     Document Type: Article

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