Bottom morphology in the Song Hau distributary channel, Mekong River Delta, Vietnam

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 147, Issue , 2017, Pages 51-61

  Allison, Mead A ^a,b   Dallon Weathers, H ^a   Meselhe, Ehab A ^a  

^a The Water Institute of the Gulf   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DISCHARGE; ERODIBILITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAPPING METHOD; MORPHODYNAMICS; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDAL POWER; TIMESCALE; TRANSECT;

MEKONG DELTA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

EID: 85019597996     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: 18736955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2017.05.010     Document Type: Article

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