Centennial-scale late-pleistocene to mid-holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 851-861

  Zielhofer, Christoph ^a,e   Faust, Dominik ^a   Escudero, Rafael Baena ^b   Diaz Del Olmo, Fernando ^b   Kadereit, Annette ^c   Moldenhauer, Klaus Martin ^d   Porras, Ana ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aggradation; Chronostratigraphy; Floodplain stratigraphy; Fluvial dynamics; Holocene; Mediterranean; Overbank deposits; Palaeohydrol palaeomagnetics; Tunisia; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA; WORLD;

EID: 3342911305     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl765rp     Document Type: Article

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