Changes of river bed pattern and traces of anthropogenic intervention: The example of using GPR method (the Obra River, western Poland)

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 784-799

  Słowik, Marcin ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

GPR method; Human impact; The Obra River

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FLOODPLAIN; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MEANDER; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOCHANNEL; RESERVOIR; RIVER BED; SEDIMENT CORE; WETLAND;

LUBUSKIE; OBRA RIVER; POLAND;

EID: 79952364397     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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