The Tabernas alluvial fan and lake system, southeast Spain: Applications of mineral magnetic and pedogenic iron oxide analyses towards clarifying the Quaternary sediment sequences

Geomorphology

Volumn 50, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 151-171

  Harvey, Adrian ^a   Foster, Gez ^a   Hannam, Jack ^b   Mather, Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Lake sediments; Magnetic minerals; Pedogenic iron oxides; Tectonic and climatic control

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IRON OXIDE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC MINERAL; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

SPAIN;

EID: 0037304432     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(02)00212-X     Document Type: Article

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