Extremes in dune preservation: Controls on the completeness of fluvial deposits

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 150, Issue , 2015, Pages 652-665

  Reesink, A J H ^a   Van den Berg, J H ^b   Parsons, D R ^c   Amsler, M L ^d   Best, J L ^e   Hardy, R J ^f   Orfeo, O ^g   Szupiany, R N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dunes; Preservation; River deposits; Stratigraphic completeness; Unit bars

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DIAGENESIS; DEPOSITION; DUNE FIELD; EROSION RATE; FLOW FIELD; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MEANDER; PRESERVATION; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ARGENTINA; PARANA RIVER;

EID: 84943772715     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.09.008     Document Type: Review

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