Changing river courses in the western part of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta

Geomorphology

Volumn 227, Issue , 2014, Pages 87-100

  Rudra, Kalyan ^a  

^a River Research Wing   (India)

Author keywords

G B delta; Human intervention on rivers; River avulsion; River meander; Tide dominated delta

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVULSION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; MEANDER; RIVER FLOW;

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; GANGES RIVER;

EID: 84908059525     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.05.013     Document Type: Article

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