Impacts of Holocene climatic variations on alluvial fan activity below snowpatches in subarctic Québec

Geomorphology

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 375-391

  Lafortune, Violaine ^a   Filion, Louise ^a   Hétu, Bernard ^b  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Climatic variations; Holocene; Nivation; Northern Qu bec; Snowpatches

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SUBARCTIC REGION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 33646890007     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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