Channel adjustments in northern and central Italy over the last 200 years

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 451, Issue , 2009, Pages 83-95

  Surian, Nicola ^a   Rinaldi, Massimo ^b   Pellegrini, Luisa ^c   Audisio, Chiara ^d   Maraga, Franca ^d   Teruggi, Liliana ^b   Turitto, Ornella ^d   Ziliani, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; CHANNEL WIDTHS; EVOLUTIONARY TREND; HISTORICAL MAPS; ORIGINAL CHANNELS; RIVER CHANNELS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

SURVEYS;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER CHANNEL; STREAM CHANNEL; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ITALY;

EID: 74949132130     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2451(05)     Document Type: Article

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