The use of Models in the Interpretation of the Effects of Base-Level Change on Alluvial Architecture

Fluvial Sedimentology VI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 269-281

  Marriott, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Controls on river systems and alluvial successions; Effects of base level change on alluvial architecture; Fluvial response to base level change; General pattern of sandbody geometry and connectedness; Outcrop of late cretaceous fluvial sediments in Languedoc basin; Sediment accumulation on floodplains; Sequence of operations in computer simulation model; Use of models examine effects of base level change; Use of models in interpretation of effects of base level change on alluvial architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

ALLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE; BASE LEVEL CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION MODEL; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; RIVER SYSTEMS; SANDBODY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84946729591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304213.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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