Discussion: 'Changing river courses in the western part of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta' by Kalyan Rudra (2014), Geomorphology, 227, 87-100

Geomorphology

Volumn 250, Issue , 2015, Pages 442-453

  Bandyopadhyay, Sunando ^a   Das, Sayantan ^a   Kar, Nabendu Sekhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Channel degradation; Coastal erosion; Delta distributaries; Ganga Brahmaputra delta; Palaeochannels

Indexed keywords

RUDRA;

EID: 84944357059     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.02.037     Document Type: Note

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