Lithologically influenced geomorphic responses to Holocene climatic changes in the Southern Colorado Plateau, Arizona: A soil-geomorphic and ecologic perspective

Geomorphology

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 303-332

  McFadden, Leslie D ^a   McAuliffe, Joseph R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arroyo; Colorado Plateau; Desert geomorphology; Fluvial geomorphology; Grazing impacts; Holocene climate change; Navajo Hopi Conflict; Neoglacial; Semiarid landscape; Soil geomorphology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOMORPHIC RESPONSE; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE;

USA, ARIZONA, COLORAO PLATEAU;

EID: 0031456430     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-555x(97)00017-2     Document Type: Article

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