Unravelling Late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape dynamics: The Upper Guadalentín Basin, SE Spain

Geomorphology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 172-185

  Baartman, J E M ^a   Veldkamp, A ^b   Schoorl, J M ^a   Wallinga, J ^c   Cammeraat, L H ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Complex response; Human impact; Landscape evolution; River terraces; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENTATION;

GUADALENTIN BASIN; MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 78349304560     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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