The role of wildfire and gully erosion in particulate Pb export from contaminated peatland catchments in the southern Pennines, U.K.

Geomorphology

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 276-284

  Rothwell, J J ^a   Evans, M G ^a   Liddaman, L C ^a   Allott, T E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Pb inventory; Peak District; Peat erosion; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTAMINATED LAND; GULLY EROSION; LEAD; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PEATLAND; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WILDFIRE;

DERBYSHIRE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; PEAK DISTRICT; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249892464     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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