Core-derived historical records of suspended sediment origin in a mesoscale mountainous catchment: The River Bléone, French Alps

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1463-1478

  Navratil, Oldrich ^a,b   Evrard, Olivier ^c   Esteves, Michel ^a   Ayrault, Sophie ^c   Lefèvre, Irène ^c   Legout, Cédric ^a   Reyss, Jean Louis ^c   Gratiot, Nicolas ^a   Nemery, Julien ^a   Mathys, Nicolle ^b   Poirel, Alain ^d   Bonté, Philippe ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Cemagref   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Braided river; Erosion; Geochemistry; Radionuclide; Sediment core; Sediment fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED RIVER; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOODPLAIN; GRAIN SIZE; HISTORICAL RECORD; INTERPOLATION; LIMESTONE; MARL; MESOSCALE MOTION; MOUNTAIN STREAM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ALPES DE HAUTE PROVENCE; ALPS; BLEONE RIVER; FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR;

EID: 84866750531     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-012-0565-2     Document Type: Article

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