Mineral magnetic characterization of sediment sources from an analysis of lake and floodplain sediments in the catchments of the Old Mill Reservoir and Slapton Ley, south Devon, UK

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 685-703

  Foster, I D L ^a   Lees, J A ^a   Owens, P N ^b   Walling, D E ^b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC MINERAL; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

DEVON; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031763744     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199808)23:8<685::AID-ESP873>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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