Fluvial system response to tectonically induced base-level change during the late-Quaternary: The Rio Alias southeast Spain

Geomorphology

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 180-192

  Maher, Elizabeth ^a   Harvey, Adrian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluvial geomorphology sedimentology; Quaternary; Southeast Spain; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ANTICLINE; DRAINAGE BASIN; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FAULTING; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; INCISED VALLEY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MEANDER; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; RIVER SYSTEM; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; RIO ALIAS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALIAS;

EID: 48649098617     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.04.038     Document Type: Article

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