A fulcrum approach to assessing source-to-sink mass balance using channel paleohydrologic paramaters derivable from common fluvial data sets with an example from the cretaceous of Egypt

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 349-372

  Holbrook, John ^a   Wanas, Hamdalla ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Menoufia University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW;

BANKFULL DIMENSIONS; BANKFULL DISCHARGE; CRITICAL VARIABLES; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BASIN FILL; CATCHMENT; CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; FLOW MODELING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MASS BALANCE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EGYPT;

EID: 84903306774     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2014.29     Document Type: Article

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