Late Holocene evolution of playa lakes in the central Ebro depression based on geophysical surveys and morpho-stratigraphic analysis of lacustrine terraces

Geomorphology

Volumn 196, Issue , 2013, Pages 177-197

  Gutierrez F ^a   Valero Garces B ^b   Desir, G ^a   Gonzalez Samperiz P ^b   Gutierrez M ^a   Linares, R ^c   Zarroca, M ^c   Moreno, A ^b   Guerrero, J ^a   Roque C ^d   Arnold, L J ^e   Demuro, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deflation basins; Geophysics; Holocene; Palaeohydrology; Saline lakes; Trenching

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HOLOCENE; IRON AGE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE EVOLUTION; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLAYA; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TERRACE;

EBRO BASIN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84879783126     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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