Alluvial fans as an effect of long-term man-landscape interactions and moist climatic conditions: A case study from the Glubczyce Plateau, SW Poland

Geomorphology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 58-70

  Zygmunt, Edyta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Deforestation; Land use changes; Poland; Prehistoric settlement; Sudeten

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEFORESTATION; DEPOSITION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PREHISTORIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; SUDETES;

EID: 67349191483     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.08.021     Document Type: Article

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