The suitability of dated travertines as a record of fluvial incision: Allier (France) floodplain dynamics during the late Quaternary

Quaternaire

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 159-165

  Veldkamp, Antonie ^a   Kroonenberg, Salomon ^b   Heijnis, Henk ^c   Ven den Berg van Saparoea, Rob ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allier; Incision chronology; Travertine; U series

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; INCISED VALLEY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIVER TERRACE; TRAVERTINE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ALLIER RIVER; AUVERGNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HAUTE-LOIRE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3142606892     PISSN: 11422904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3406/quate.2004.1763     Document Type: Article

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