Extraordinary floods related to the climatic event at 4200 a BP on the Qishuihe River, middle reaches of the Yellow River, China

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 460-468

  Huang, Chun Chang ^a   Pang, Jiangli ^a   Zha, Xiaochun ^a   Su, Hongxia ^b   Jia, Yaofeng ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Climatic event; Holocene; Palaeoflood; Slackwater deposit; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CLIMATIC EVENTS; HOLOCENES; PALAEOFLOOD; SLACKWATER DEPOSIT; YELLOW RIVER;

DEPOSITS; DROUGHT; FLOODS; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY;

RIVERS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; FLOODING; HOLOCENE; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; OVERBANK FLOW; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOFLOOD; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RIVER BANK; SEMIARID REGION; VALLEY;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 78951491444     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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