Sediment flux from the morphodynamics of elongating linear dunes

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1027-1030

  Lucas, Antoine ^a   Narteau, Clément ^a   Rodriguez, Sébastien ^a   Rozier, Olivier ^b   Callot, Yann ^c   Garcia, Amandine ^a   Courrech du Pont, Sylvain ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENTS;

BARCHAN DUNES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LATERAL ACCRETIONS; LATERAL MIGRATION; MINERAL AEROSOLS; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEDIMENT AVAILABILITY; WIND CONDITIONS;

SAND;

AERIAL SURVEY; BEDFORM; DESERT; DUNE; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

NIGER [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 84948741401     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G37101.1     Document Type: Article

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