River sediments, great floods and centennial-scale Holocene climate change

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 101-105

  Macklin, Mark G ^a   Lewin, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Centennial scale climate change; Holocene floods; River sediments

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; RIVER SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037301853     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.751     Document Type: Article

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