Reconstruction of late-Holocene slope and dry valley sediment dynamics in a Belgian loess environment

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 777-788

  Rommens, Tom ^a   Verstraeten, Gert ^a   Peeters, Iris ^a   Poesen, Jean ^a   Govers, Gerard ^a   Van Rompaey, Anton ^a,b   Mauz, Barbara ^c   Packman, Susan ^c   Lang, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belgium; Holocene; Iron Age; Landscape evolution; Loess; Middle Ages; Optical dating; Radiocarbon dating; Roman Period; Sediment dynamics; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

CATENA; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; IRON AGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LOESS; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT; SLOPE; SOIL EROSION; VALLEY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35648985081     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607080519     Document Type: Article

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