Mid- and Late Holocene fluvial chronology of Tunisia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 580-588

  Zielhofer, Christoph ^a,b   Faust, Dominik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; FLOOD CONTROL; RIVERS;

FLUVIAL RESPONSE; HOLOCENE FLOOD DYNAMICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

EID: 40849118090     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.11.019     Document Type: Article

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