The Mississippi River source-to-sink system: Perspectives on tectonic, climatic, and anthropogenic influences, Miocene to Anthropocene

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 153, Issue , 2016, Pages 139-174

  Bentley, S J ^a   Blum, M D ^b   Maloney, J ^a,d   Pond, L ^c   Paulsell, R ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial valley; Anthropocene; Holocene; Miocene; Mississippi; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Fan; Pleistocene; Source to sink

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ANTHROPOCENE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; MORPHODYNAMICS; PLEISTOCENE; TECTONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; MISSISSIPPI FAN; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960094527     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.11.001     Document Type: Review

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