The River Orontes in Syria and Turkey: Downstream variation of fluvial archives in different crustal blocks

Geomorphology

Volumn 165-166, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-49

  Bridgland, David R ^a   Westaway, Rob ^b,c   Romieh, Mohammad Abou ^d   Candy, Ian ^e   Daoud, Mohamad ^d   Demir, Tuncer ^f   Galiatsatos, Nikolaos ^a   Schreve, Danielle C ^e   Seyrek, Ali ^f   Shaw, Andrew D ^g   White, Tom S ^h   Whittaker, John ⁱ  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d National Earthquake Center   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluvial deposits; River Orontes; River terraces; Subsidence; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ARTIFACT; BASALT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ORONTES RIVER; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TURKEY;

MAMMALIA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84863620769     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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