Multi-storey calcrete profiles developed during the initial stages of the configuration of the Ebro Basin's exorrheic fluvial network

Geomorphology

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 232-248

  Meléndez, Alfonso ^a   Alonso Zarza, Ana M ^b   Sancho, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calcretes; Ebro Basin; Fluvial network; Quaternary; Terraces

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CALCRETE; CHALK; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; EROSION; GRAVEL; MUDSTONE; PEDOGENESIS; PISOLITH; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; TERRACE;

ALCANADRE RIVER; ARAGON; CINCA RIVER; EBRO BASIN; EBRO RIVER; HUESCA [ARAGON]; SPAIN;

EID: 84860394336     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.06.032     Document Type: Article

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