Assessing soil erosion and control factors by the radiometric technique in the Boussouab catchment, Eastern Rif, Morocco

Catena

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-20

  Sadiki, Abdelhamid ^a   Faleh, Ali ^b   Navas, Ana ^c   Bouhlassa, Saidati ^d  

^a SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b Faculty of Letters   (Morocco)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

137Cs; Anthropogenic impact; Erosion factors; Morocco; Rif; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BADLANDS; CATCHMENT; CEREAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EROSION CONTROL; EROSION RATE; LAND USE CHANGE; LITHOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; WATER EROSION;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; RIF;

EID: 34547122006     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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