Alluvial responses to the changing earth system

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1374-1395

  Macklin, Mark G ^a   Lewin, John ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Little ice age' floods and alluvial responses to modern climate warming; 14C database and meta analysis of fluvial units; Alluvial systems and environmental change; Earth system science and fluvial archive studies; River responses to Late Quaternary climate events

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

'LITTLE ICE AGE' FLOODS AND ALLUVIAL RESPONSES TO MODERN CLIMATE WARMING; 14C DATABASE AND META-ANALYSIS OF FLUVIAL UNITS; ALLUVIAL SYSTEMS; ALLUVIAL SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; BRITAIN; CLIMATE EVENTS; CLIMATE WARMING; EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE AND FLUVIAL ARCHIVE STUDIES; EARTH SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS; EUROPEAN; FLUVIAL SEDIMENTS; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEMORY EFFECTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION MODELS; PROXY RECORDS; RIVER RESPONSES TO LATE QUATERNARY CLIMATE EVENTS; RIVER SYSTEMS; SELF-ORGANIZING; TIME PERIODS; TIME-SCALES;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HEINRICH EVENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TIMESCALE;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 49649097316     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1714     Document Type: Article

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