The Palaeoflood record of the Gardon River, France: A comparison with the extreme 2002 flood event

Geomorphology

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 71-83

  Sheffer, Nathan A ^a   Rico, Mayte ^b   Enzel, Yehouda ^a   Benito, Gerardo ^c   Grodek, Tamir ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Paleoflood hydrology, Slackwater flood deposits, Floods, Hydraulic modeling, Historical floods, Gardon River (France)

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLOODING; GORGE; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PALEOFLOOD; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIVER DISCHARGE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GARDON BASIN; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 45249109819     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.02.034     Document Type: Article

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