Climate and anthropogenic factors affecting alluvial fan development during the late Holocene in the central Ebro Valley, Northeast Spain

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 275-286

  Constante, Ana ^a   Peña, José Luis ^b   Muñoz, Arsenio ^b   Picazo, Jesús ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

alluvial fans; Ebro Depression; geoarchaeology; Holocene; soil erosion; Spain

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; HILLSLOPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIDDLE AGES; MORPHODYNAMICS; RIVER TERRACE; ROMAN ERA; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOIL EROSION; VALLEY; WATERSHED;

EBRO RIVER; EBRO VALLEY; SPAIN;

EID: 79952091709     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610378873     Document Type: Article

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