Pool-fills: A window to palaeoflood history and response in bedrock-confined rivers

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 901-925

  Jansen, John D ^a   Brierley, Gary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bench; Late Holocene; Palaeoflood; Pool fill stratigraphy; Preservation potential; Riffle pool

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOOD; PALEOHYDROLOGY; POOL-RIFFLE SEQUENCE; RIVER CHANNEL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 6944235764     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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