Morphometry and late holocene activity of solifluction landforms in the sierra Nevada, southern Spain

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 369-382

  Oliva, Marc ^a   Schulte, Lothar ^a   Ortiz, Antonio Gómez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Late Holocene; Morphometry; Seasonally frozen layer; Sierra Nevada; Solifluction lobes

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FROZEN GROUND; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRY; PALEOCLIMATE; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SOLIFLUCTION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SIERRA NEVADA [BETIC CORDILLERA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70849091911     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.645     Document Type: Article

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