Holocene and Anthropocene Landscape Change: Arroyo Formation on Santa Cruz Island, California

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1229-1250

  Perroy, Ryan L ^a   Bookhagen, Bodo ^b   Chadwick, Oliver A ^b   Howarth, Jeffrey T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmogenic radionuclides; gully incision; lidar; overgrazing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BASIN EVOLUTION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; GULLY EROSION; HILLSLOPE; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LIDAR; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OVERGRAZING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SLOPE STABILITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; SANTA CRUZ ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84867216506     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.715054     Document Type: Article

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