A temporarily changing Holocene sediment budget for a loess-covered catchment (central Belgium)

Geomorphology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 24-34

  Verstraeten, Gert ^a   Rommens, Tom ^a   Peeters, Iris ^a   Poesen, Jean ^a   Govers, Gerard ^a   Lang, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Holocene; Human impact; Loess; Sediment budget; Sediment dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BRONZE AGE; CATCHMENT; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; FLOODPLAIN; HILLSLOPE; HOLOCENE; IRON AGE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RIVER; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; TRIBUTARY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349133089     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.03.022     Document Type: Article

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