A Middle to Late Holocene avulsion history of the Euphrates river: a case study from Tell ed-Dēr, Iraq, Lower Mesopotamia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 25-26, 2008, Pages 2401-2410

  An Heyvaert, Vanessa Mary ^a   Baeteman, Cecile ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER);

ABANDONED WELLS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES; CASE STUDIES; CHANNEL ACTIVITIES; CHANNEL NETWORKS; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; EUPHRATES RIVERS; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL DATUMS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; LATE HOLOCENE; MESOPOTAMIA; NATURAL PROCESSES; PALAEOCHANNEL; STUDY AREAS;

RIVERS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; AVULSION; BOREHOLE; FACIES; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODPLAIN; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAPPING; PALEOCHANNEL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

EUPHRATES RIVER; EURASIA; TIGRIS RIVER;

EID: 56549107653     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.08.024     Document Type: Article

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