Reconciling arroyo cycle and paleoflood approaches to late Holocene alluvial records in dryland streams

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 855-866

  Harvey, Jonathan E ^a   Pederson, Joel L ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial records; Arroyos; Drylands; Paleofloods

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL RECORDS; ALLUVIAL VALLEYS; ARROYOS; CHANGING CLIMATE; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DRYLAND; DRYLANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; HOLOCENES; HYDRAULIC MODELING; LATE HOLOCENE; NEW THEORY; PALEOFLOODS;

FORESTRY; HYDRAULIC TOOLS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BEDROCK; CANYON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLASH FLOOD; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOFLOOD; STREAM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952441931     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.025     Document Type: Article

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