A review of the Tagus river tufa deposits (central Spain): age and palaeoenvironmental record

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 947-963

  Ortiz, J E ^a   Torres, T ^a   Delgado, A ^b   Reyes, E ^b   Diaz Bautista A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RIVERS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

ASPARTIC ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CATCHMENT AREAS; CENTRAL SPAIN; DERIVED CARBONS; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; FLOW REGIMES; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONS; GLUTAMIC ACIDS; INFILLING; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; OXYGEN STABLE ISOTOPES; SOUTHERN SPAIN;

SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

AGE; CHRONOLOGY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OSTRACOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TUFA;

ARGENTINA; DULCE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAGUS RIVER;

HERPETOCYPRIS REPTANS; OSTRACODA;

EID: 62749107068     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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