Late Quaternary sedimentary record and Holocene channel avulsions of the Jamuna and Old Brahmaputra River valleys in the upper Bengal delta plain

Geomorphology

Volumn 227, Issue , 2014, Pages 123-136

  Pickering, Jennifer L ^a   Goodbred, Steven L ^a   Reitz, Meredith D ^c   Hartzog, Thomas R ^a   Mondal, Dhiman R ^b   Hossain, Md Saddam ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Avulsion stratigraphy; Brahmaputra delta; Paleovalleys; Quaternary; Valley geometry

Indexed keywords

AVULSION; BRAIDED RIVER; CHANNEL FLOW; MOUNTAIN STREAM; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TRANSGRESSION;

BANGLADESH; BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN; BRAHMAPUTRA VALLEY; GANGES DELTA; JAMUNA RIVER;

EID: 84908069812     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.09.021     Document Type: Article

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