Landscape memory: The imprint of the past on contemporary landscape forms and processes

Area

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-85

  Brierley, Gary John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Australia; Erasure; Geomorphology; New Zealand; Persistence; Sediment budget; Timescale

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEMORY; PERSISTENCE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; TIMESCALE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 74949144111     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00900.x     Document Type: Article

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