Calcrete profile development in quaternary alluvial sequences, southeast Spain: Implications for using calcretes as a basis for landform chronologies

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-185

  Candy, Ian ^a   Black, Stuart ^a   Sellwood, Bruce W ^a   Rowan, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial; Calcrete; Chronology; Quaternary; Terrace

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; SOILS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MICRO-MORPHOLOGY;

LANDFORMS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CALCRETE; CHRONOLOGY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PEDOGENESIS; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE;

SPAIN;

EID: 0037296289     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.445     Document Type: Article

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