Fluvial responses to environmental perturbations in the Northern Mediterranean since the Last Glacial Maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 23-24, 2009, Pages 2386-2397

  Kettner, A J ^a   Syvitski, J P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATIONS; DRAINAGE AREA; DRAINAGE BASIN; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM LINES; FLOOD DISCHARGE; FLUVIAL RESPONSE; FREQUENCY CHANGES; HOLOCENES; HYDROTREND; HYPERPYCNAL; HYPERPYCNAL PLUMES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PO RIVER; RIVER BASINS; RIVER SYSTEMS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENT LOADS; SEDIMENT TRAPPING; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SIMULATED SEDIMENT FLUX; WATER DISCHARGES; WATER FLUX;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TIME SERIES;

CATCHMENTS;

DEGLACIATION; DRAINAGE BASIN; FLUVIAL PROCESS; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; RESERVOIR; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; TIME SERIES; WATER FLOW;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; ITALY; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; PO RIVER; PYRENEES ORIENTALES; RHONE RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TET RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349136265     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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