Climate controls on late Pleistocene landscape evolution of the Okhombe valley, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Geomorphology

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 280-295

  Temme, A J A M ^a   Baartman, J E M ^a   Botha, G A ^b   Veldkamp, A ^a   Jongmans, A G ^a   Wallinga, J ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate control; Landscape evolution; Masotcheni Formation; Micromorphology; Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating; Stable carbon isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HILLSLOPE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SOLIFLUCTION;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 44749087344     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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