Flood frequency variability during the past 80 years in the Slave River Delta, NWT, as determined from multi-proxy paleolimnological analysis

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-300

  Brock, Bronwyn E ^a   Martin, Margaret E ^a   Mongeon, Cherie L ^b   Sokal, Michael A ^a   Wesche, Sonia D ^b   Armitage, Derek ^b   Wolfe, Brent B ^b   Hall, Roland I ^a   Edwards, Thomas W D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD FREQUENCY; HEAD WATERS; MACKENZIE RIVER BASIN; MACROFOSSILS; OXBOW LAKES; PEACE-ATHABASCA DELTAS; PRIMARY FACTORS; PROXY RECORDS; RIVER DELTAS; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER REGULATION; RUNOFF REGIMES; SEDIMENT CORE; SPRING BREAK-UP; STUDY SITES; UPSTREAM REGULATION;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; LAKES; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER LEVELS;

RIVERS;

ALISMATACEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; SAGITTARIA CUNEATA;

EID: 78649777337     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4296/cwrj3503281     Document Type: Article

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