Tracing sediment sources in a tropical highland catchment of central Mexico by using conventional and alternative fingerprinting methods

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 911-922

  Evrard, Olivier ^a   Poulenard, Jérôme ^b   Némery, Julien ^c   Ayrault, Sophie ^a   Gratiot, Nicolas ^d   Duvert, Clément ^d   Prat, Christian ^d   Lefèvre, Irène ^a   Bonté, Philippe ^a   Esteves, Michel ^d  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Fingerprinting; Mexico; Sediment; Soil types; Tropical catchment

Indexed keywords

ACRISOLS; ANDISOLS; CENTRAL MEXICO; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CORTINA; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE INFRARED FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPIES; EROSION CONTROL; FINGERPRINTING; FINGERPRINTING METHODS; GEOCHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS; GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; LAND DEGRADATION; ME-XICO; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; RESERVOIR SILTATIONS; RIVER NETWORK; SEDIMENT EXPORTS; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL TYPES; SUB-CATCHMENT; SUBCATCHMENTS; TROPICAL HIGHLANDS; TROPICAL REGIONS;

CATCHMENTS; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

SEDIMENTS;

ACRISOL; ANDISOL; CATCHMENT; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER FLOW; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILTATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL TYPE;

ARGENTINA; MENDOZA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHOACAN; MORELIA; POTRERILLOS;

EID: 84874726390     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9421     Document Type: Article

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