Predicting vertical accretion rates at an archaeological site on the Mississippi River floodplain: Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

Catena

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 134-149

  Benedetti, M M ^a   Daniels, J M ^b   Ritchie, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cs 137; Overbank sediments; Sedimentation rates; Upper Mississippi Valley

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; AGGRADATION; ARCHAEOLOGY; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CESIUM ISOTOPE; DEPOSITION; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODPLAIN; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EFFIGY MOUNDS NATIONAL MONUMENT; IOWA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846620176     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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