Accelerated soil erosion in central Tanzania during the last few hundred years

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 315-320

  Eriksson, M G ^a   Christiansson, C ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BADLAND; GRAZING; GULLY EROSION; SEDIMENT CHRONOLOGY; SOIL EROSION;

TANZANIA, IRANGI HILLS;

EID: 0031397701     PISSN: 00791946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-1946(97)00151-1     Document Type: Article

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