Alluvial and colluvial sediment storage in the Geul River catchment (The Netherlands) - Combining field and modelling data to construct a Late Holocene sediment budget

Geomorphology

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 487-503

  de Moor, J J W ^a   Verstraeten, G ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alluvial and colluvial storage; Alluvial fans; Geul River; Holocene; Land use change; Sediment budget

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; CATCHMENT; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; HOLOCENE; LAND USE CHANGE; MODELING; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GEUL RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39149131736     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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