Temporal buffering of climate-driven sediment flux cycles by transient catchment response

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 369-370, Issue , 2013, Pages 200-210

  Armitage, John J ^a   Dunkley Jones, Tom ^b   Duller, Robert A ^c   Whittaker, Alexander C ^d   Allen, Philip A ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Landscape evolution; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT RESPONSE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; PARTICULATE FLUXES; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FUNCTIONS; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTS;

BASIN FILL; CATCHMENT; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CYCLICITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878178265     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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