Agro-industrial alluvium in the Swale catchment, northern England, as an event marker for the Anthropocene

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 587-602

  Foulds, Simon A ^a   Macklin, Mark G ^a   Brewer, Paul A ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; agro industrial alluvium; Anthropocene; chemostratigraphy; flooding; land use and climate change

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; FLOODPLAIN; HILLSLOPE; LAND USE CHANGE; LITTLE ICE AGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER SYSTEM;

ENGLAND; NORTH YORKSHIRE; SWALE BASIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84875031309     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612465445     Document Type: Article

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