Discontinuous ephemeral streams

Geomorphology

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 227-276

  Bull, William B ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Arroyo; Climate change; Fluvial geomorphology; Semiarid regions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000524480     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-555x(97)00016-0     Document Type: Article

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