A framework of Holocene and Late Pleistocene environmental change in eastern Iran inferred from the dating of periods of alluvial fan abandonment, river terracing, and lake deposition

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1256-1271

  Walker, Richard Thomas ^a   Fattahi, Morteza ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Holocene; Iran; Landscape evolution; Palaeoenvironment

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; LAKES; RIVERS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; HOLOCENES; IRAN; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

LANDFORMS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; ARID REGION; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; TERRACING;

IRAN;

EID: 79955728140     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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