Micromorphological study of irrigation canal sediments: Landscape evolution and hydraulic management in the middle Gila River valley (Phoenix Basin, Arizona) during the Hohokam occupation

Quaternary International

Volumn 216, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 129-144

  Purdue, Louise ^a   Miles, Wesley ^b   Woodson, Kyle ^b   Darling, Andrew ^b   Berger, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b Cultural Resource Management Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CANAL; CULTURAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; IRRIGATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PREHISTORIC; WATER SUPPLY;

ARIZONA; GILA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949654545     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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