Dating fluvial processes from historical data and artifacts

Catena

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 283-304

  Trimble, Stanley W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archeology; Fluvial geomorphology; Historical data; Historical methods

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DATING METHOD; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY;

EID: 0031597495     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(97)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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