High-altitude varve records of abrupt environmental changes and mining activity over the last 4000 years in the Western French Alps (Lake Bramant, Grandes Rousses Massif)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 19-21, 2007, Pages 2644-2660

  Guyard, Hervé ^a,b,c   Chapron, Emmanuel ^d   St Onge, Guillaume ^b,c   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^d   Arnaud, Fabien ^e   Magand, Olivier ^f   Francus, Pierre ^c,g   Mélières, Marie Antoinette ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HAZARDS; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMOLOGY;

CATCHMENT AREAS; GLACIAL VARVES; PROGLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; RADIONUCLIDE MEASUREMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAMINATION; MINING; MINING-INDUCED SEISMICITY; NATURAL HAZARD; PHOTOGRAPHY; ROMAN ERA; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLUMPING; SNOWMELT; VARVE; VEGETATION COVER;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GRANDES ROUSSES MASSIF; RHONE-ALPES; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36248947216     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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