Sediment Transport in Distributary Channels and its Export to the Pro-deltaic Environment in a Tidally-dominated Delta: Fly River, Papua New Guinea

Created 20/01/2026

Updated 20/01/2026

Current metre deployments, suspended sediment measurements and surface sediment samples were collected from three locations within distributary channels of the tidally dominated Fly River delta in southern Papua New Guinea.

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Title Sediment Transport in Distributary Channels and its Export to the Pro-deltaic Environment in a Tidally-dominated Delta: Fly River, Papua New Guinea
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/ca18e7f8-7dd8-4b4e-8259-4589d00135c9
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Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 22/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Sediment Transport in Distributary Channels and its Export to the Pro-deltaic Environment in a Tidally-dominated Delta: Fly River, Papua New Guinea". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/sediment-transport-in-distributary-channels-and-its-export-to-the-pro-deltaic-environment-in-a-2