Sediment source changes over the last 250 years in a dry-tropical catchment, central Queensland, Australia

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 262-275

  Hughes, Andrew O ^a   Olley, Jon M ^b   Croke, Jacky C ^a   McKergow, Lucy A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Great Barrier Reef; Gully erosion; Human impact; Overbank deposits; Sediment fingerprinting; Source tracing

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; FALLOUT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GULLY EROSION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT YIELD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; FITZROY BASIN; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 58349083236     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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