Dating floodplain sediments using tree-ring response to burial

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1077-1091

  Friedman, Jonathan M ^a   Vincent, Kirk R ^a   Shafroth, Patrick B ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burial; Dendrochronology; Salix; Stratigraphy; Tamarix

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEVEES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BURIAL; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLOODPLAIN; SEDIMENTATION; TREE RING;

SALIX; SALIX EXIGUA; TAMARICACEAE; TAMARIX; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 24944534121     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1263     Document Type: Article

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