Topography of inland deltas: Observations, modeling, and experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Seybold, H J ^a   Molnar, P ^a   Akca, D ^b   Doumi, M ^a,c   Cavalcanti Tavares, M ^d   Shinbrot, T ^c   Andrade, J S ^d   Kinzelbach, W ^a   Herrmann, H J ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

alluvial fan; inland delta; Okavango

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ALLUVIAL FANS; DISTRIBUTARY CHANNELS; INLAND DELTA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OKAVANGO; OKAVANGO DELTA , BOTSWANA; REDUCED COMPLEXITY MODELING; TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE;

TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84924268552     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041605     Document Type: Article

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