Changing hillslope and fluvial Holocene sediment dynamics in a Belgian loess catchment

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-58

  Notebaert, Bastiaan ^a   Verstraeten, Gert ^a   Vandenberghe, Dimitri ^b   Marinova, Elena ^a   Poesen, Jean ^a   Govers, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alluvium; Climate change; Colluvium; Dating; Holocene; Land use change

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; HILLSLOPE; HOLOCENE; LAND USE CHANGE; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

BELGIUM; DIJLE RIVER;

EID: 78751551695     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1425     Document Type: Article

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