Late Quaternary floodplain reworking and the preservation of alluvial sedimentary archives in unconfined and confined river valleys in the eastern interior of South Africa

Geomorphology

Volumn 185, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-66

  Keen Zebert, A ^a   Tooth, S ^a   Rodnight, H ^a,b   Duller, G A T ^a   Roberts, H M ^a   Grenfell, M ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base level change; Floodplain; Mixed bedrock alluvial rivers; Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL); Quaternary; River incision

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BOUNDARY CONDITION; EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

KWAZULU-NATAL; MOOI RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84873174895     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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