Holocene floodplain formation in the southern Cape region, South Africa

Geomorphology

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 213-222

  Damm, Bodo ^a,b   Hagedorn, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cape region; Environmental change; Floodplain formation; Fluvial geomorphology; Gourits River basin; South Africa

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; PASTURE; PEAK FLOW; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIVER BED; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

GOURITS RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 77956345021     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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