The oxbow sedimentary subenvironment: Its value in palaeogeographical studies as illustrated by selected fluvial systems in the Upper Odra catchment, southern Poland

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 589-603

  Wójcicki, Krzysztof J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cut off; Facies model; Fluvial environment; Holocene; Oder River; Oxbow Environment; Palaeochannel; Poland

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FACIES; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; VISTULIAN;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ODER RIVER; POLAND;

EID: 33745979477     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hl953rp     Document Type: Article

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