Provenance and Origin of Holocene Beach Ridge and Modern Beach Sands from the Costa de Nayarit, western Mexico

The Costa de Nayarit in western Mexico is a classic modern example of the progradation of a coastline in a wave-dominated depositional environment. Throughout the Pleistocene, sediments have been brought to the Costa De Nayarit via three major river systems, the Rio Grande de Santiago, the Rio San P...

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Main Author: Cisneros, Ruben Abe
Other Authors: Byerly, Gary
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2011
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04262011-150353/