Sedimentary records of large Holocene floods from the middle reaches of the Yellow River, China

Geomorphology

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 73-88

  Yang, Dayuan ^a   Yu, Ge ^b   Xie, Yuebo ^c   Zhan, Daojiang ^c   Li, Zhijia ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Institute of Geography and Limnology China Academy of Science   (China)

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flood peak record; Holocene; Palaeoflood; Slackwater deposits; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOFLOOD; PEAK FLOW; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 0034035030     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(99)00111-7     Document Type: Article

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