Soil erosion and sediment deposition in the Belgian loess belt during the Holocene: Establishing a sediment budget for a small agricultural catchment

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1032-1043

  Rommens, Tom ^a   Verstraeten, Gert ^a,b   Poesen, Jean ^a   Govers, Gerard ^a   Van Rompaey, Anton ^a,b   Peeters, Iris ^a   Lang, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural catchment; Belgium; Historical erosion; Holocene; Loess; Sediment budget; Sediment delivery; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SOIL EROSION;

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

EID: 27644436717     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl876ra     Document Type: Article

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