Reach-scale river dynamics moderate the impact of rapid Holocene climate change on floodwater farming in the desert Nile

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 695-698

  Macklin, Mark G ^a   Woodward, Jamie C ^b   Welsby, Derek A ^c   Duller, Geoff A T ^a   Williams, Frances M ^d   Williams, Martin A J ^d  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE; ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PALEO CHANNEL; RIVER DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; LUMINESCENCE; STRATIGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOODING; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; IRRIGATION; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

NILE RIVER; SUDAN;

EID: 84878171407     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34037.1     Document Type: Article

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