Dynamics and driving factors of late Holocene gullying in the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER)

Geomorphology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 541-554

  Carnicelli, Stefano ^a   Benvenuti, Marco ^a   Ferrari, Giovanni ^a   Sagri, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buried soils; Climate; Ephemeral streams; Gullies; Holocene; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; CHRONOLOGY; EPHEMERAL STREAM; GULLY; HOLOCENE; LAND SURFACE; PALEOSOL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIAN RIFT; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 57349101887     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.07.019     Document Type: Article

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