Tree-ring record of hillslope erosion and valley floor dynamics: Landscape responses to climate variation during the last 400 yr in the Colorado Plateau, northeastern Arizona

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 184-201

  McAuliffe, Joseph R ^a   Scuderi, Louis A ^b   McFadden, Leslie D ^b  

^a DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

alluviation; arroyos; climate variation; Colorado Plateau; dendrogeomorphology; drought; erosion; hillslope dynamics; pinyon pine; soil

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; EROSION; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); VALLEY; WEATHERING;

ARIZONA; COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 33646341762     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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