Episodic Late Quaternary slopewash deposition as recorded in colluvial aprons, Southeastern Wyoming

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 16-17, 2004, Pages 1835-1846

  Hanson, Paul R ^a   Mason, Joseph A ^b   Goble, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; SLOPE PROTECTION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATIC TRANSITIONS; LANDSCAPE STABILITY; OPTICAL DATING; SLOPEWASH DEPOSITION;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ARIDITY; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; HEINRICH EVENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); YOUNGER DRYAS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 3342987601     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.02.016     Document Type: Article

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