Morphodynamics and facies architecture of tidal inlets and tidal deltas

Principles of Tidal Sedimentology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 301-333

  Fitzgerald, Duncan ^a   Buynevich, Ilya ^b   Hein, Christopher ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0123-6_12     Document Type: Chapter

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