Determining rates of sediment accumulation on the Mekong shelf: Timescales, steady-state assumptions, and radiochemical tracers

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 147, Issue , 2017, Pages 182-196

  DeMaster, D J ^a   Liu, J P ^a   Eidam, E ^b   Nittrouer, C A ^b   Nguyen, T T ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

14C geochronology; 210Pb geochronology; Deltaic sediment accumulation rates; Mekong delta; Mekong sediment budget

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBON ISOTOPE; DELTA; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; DISCHARGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INVENTORY; LEAD ISOTOPE; ORGANIC CARBON; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SHELF DYNAMICS; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TIMESCALE; TRACER;

MEKONG RIVER; VIET NAM;

EID: 85021357707     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: 18736955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2017.06.011     Document Type: Article

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