Hillslope gullying in the Solway Firth - Morecambe Bay region, Great Britain: Responses to human impact and/or climatic deterioration?

Geomorphology

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 317-343

  Chiverrell, R C ^a   Harvey, A M ^a   Foster, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan; Climate change; Gullying; Hillslope; Holocene; Human impact; Instability; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GULLY EROSION; HILLSLOPE; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; RADIOCARBON DATING; SLOPE STABILITY; VEGETATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOLWAY FIRTH; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846631296     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.12.014     Document Type: Article

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