Use of flood chronology for detailed environmental analysis: A case study of Lake Kizaki in the northern Japanese Alps, central Japan

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1607-1618

  Ito, Takuma ^a   Iwamoto, Haruka ^a   Kamiya, Koichi ^b   Fukushima, Takehiko ^b   Kumon, Fujio ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Element analysis; Flood chronology; Grain size; Hyperpycnite; Lake Kizaki

Indexed keywords

C/N RATIO; COARSER GRAINS; ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY RAINFALL; HEAVY RAINS; HYPERPYCNAL; METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LAKES;

AGE DETERMINATION; CHRONOLOGY; ELEMENT MOBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FINING SEQUENCE; FLOOD; GRAIN SIZE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARKER BED; RAINFALL; TEMPORAL RECORD;

CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; LAKE KIZAKI; NAGANO;

EID: 77953630327     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0295-y     Document Type: Article

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