Reconstructing rainfall and land-use conditions leading to the development of old gullies

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 378-386

  Vanwalleghem, T ^a,b   Poesen, J ^a   Van Den Eeckhaut, M ^a,b   Nachtergaele, J ^a   Deckers, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

(peak) flow discharge; Belgian loess belt; Gully width; Historical gully erosion; Land use; Late Holocene; Rainfall intensity

Indexed keywords

GULLY EROSION; HOLOCENE; LAND USE; RAINFALL;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 18844371193     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl807rp     Document Type: Article

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