River behaviour and holocene alluviation: The river Severn at Welshpool, Mid-Wales, U.K.

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-91

  Taylor, Mark P ^a   Lewin, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial; Floodplain; Heavy metals; Holocene; Palaeochannel; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT; HEAVY METAL; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE RIVER; MINING; RIVER HISTORY; SEDIMENTATION;

UK, WALES, POWYS, WELSHPOOL, RIVER SEVERN; UK, WALES, WELSHPOOL, SEVERN RIVER;

EID: 0029750535     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199601)21:1<77::AID-ESP547>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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