Logging effects on sediment flux observed in a pollen-based record of overbank deposition in a northern California catchment

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 813-821

  Constantine, José A ^a   Pasternack, Gregory B ^b   Johnson, Michael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Forestry; Navarro; Palynology; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES; RADIOISOTOPES;

MASS-WASTING EVENTS; PLAYNOLOGICAL APPROACH; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SEDIMENT FLUX;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

PALYNOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22744444798     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1190     Document Type: Article

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