Earthflow sediment production and Holocene sediment record in a large Apennine catchment

Geomorphology

Volumn 188, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-53

  Simoni, Alessandro ^a   Ponza, Alessio ^a   Picotti, Vincenzo ^a   Berti, Matteo ^a   Dinelli, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthflow; Erosion rate; Hillslope sediment production; Magnitude frequency analysis; Sedimentation rate

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITION; EROSION RATE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HILLSLOPE; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MASS MOVEMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

APENNINES; ITALY; RENO RIVER;

EID: 84875808405     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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