Sediment yield from the tectonically active semiarid Western Transverse Ranges of California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1054-1070

  Warrick, Jonathan A ^a   Mertes, Leal A K ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; CALIFORNIA; DISCHARGE RATES; DRAINAGE BASIN; GAUGING STATIONS; LOCAL SCALE; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLIOCENE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT YIELDS; TECTONIC UPLIFT; WATERSHED AREAS;

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; TECTONICS; WATERSHEDS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DISCHARGE; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEMIARID REGION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69949102236     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26452.1     Document Type: Article

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