The late Quaternary evolution of the Negro River, Amazon, Brazil: Implications for island and floodplain formation in large anabranching tropical systems

Geomorphology

Volumn 70, Issue 3-4 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 372-397

  Latrubesse, Edgardo M ^a   Franzinelli, Elena ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anabranching; Equilibrium; Floodplain; Holocene; Late Quaternary; Negro River

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; RIVER EVOLUTION;

RIO NEGRO [SOUTH AMERICA]; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24644516677     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.02.014     Document Type: Article

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