Nested temporal suspended sediment yields, Green Lake Basin, British Columbia, Canada

Geomorphology

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 114-129

  Menounos, Brian ^a   Schiefer, Erik ^b   Slaymaker, Olav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Persistence; Rare event; Sediment yield; Suspended sediment; Uncertainty; Varves

Indexed keywords

LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; VARVE; WATERSHED;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645636234     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.09.020     Document Type: Article

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