Regional response of alluvial fans to the Pleistocene-Holocene climatic transition, Mojave Desert, California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 368, Issue , 2003, Pages 189-205

  McDonald, Eric V ^a   McFadden, Leslie D ^b   Wells, Stephen G ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; STORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES; VEGETATION;

COARSE-TEXTURED SOILS; EXTREME STORM EVENTS; INFILTRATION CAPACITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE TRANSITION; RAINFALL INTENSITY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

LANDFORMS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; HILLSLOPE; INFILTRATION; INSTABILITY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL COVER; VEGETATION COVER;

MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870980246     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2368-X.189     Document Type: Article

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