Sedimentation patterns off the Zambezi River over the last 20,000 years

Marine Geology

Volumn 355, Issue , 2014, Pages 189-201

  Van der Lubbe, Jeroen H J L ^a   Tjallingii, Rik ^b   Prins, Maarten A ^c   Brummer, Geert Jan A ^b,c   Jung, Simon J A ^d   Kroon, Dick ^d   Schneider, Ralph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mozambique Margin; Sea level rise and shelf flooding; Zambezi sediment transport and deposition

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEAN CURRENTS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MOZAMBIQUE; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; SCANNING MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENTATION PATTERN;

RIVERS;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOODING; GRAIN SIZE; HEINRICH EVENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REMOBILIZATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

INDIAN OCEAN; MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL; ZAMBEZI RIVER;

EID: 84902981736     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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