Postglacial ponds and alluvial fans: Recorders of holocene landscape history

GSA Today

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1997, Pages

  Bierman, Paul ^a   Lini, Andrea ^a   Zehfuss, Paul ^a   Church, Amy ^a   Davis, P Thompson ^b   Southon, John ^c   Baldwin, Lyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE EROSION; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; POSTGLACIAL POND;

USA, VERMONT;

EID: 0031425970     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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