Piecing together the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River delta: Use of sediment provenance to reconstruct the history and interaction of multiple fluvial systems during Holocene delta evolution

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Geological Society of America Bulletin

• Publication date

  2014-11-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science, Geology

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  DOI 10.1130/B30965.1
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