Identifying the sedimentary imprint of high-frequency Holocene river floods in lake sediments: Development and application of a new method

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 3021-3033

  Støren, Eivind N ^a,b   Dahl, Svein Olaf ^a,b   Nesje, Atle ^a,b   Paasche, Øyvind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH RESOLUTION; HISTORICAL DATA; HOLOCENES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; SHORT-INTERVAL; SOUTHERN NORWAY; TIME-SCALES; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

LAKES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THUNDERSTORMS;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOODING; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957602531     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.038     Document Type: Article

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