Mid- to late Holocene flood frequency changes in the northeastern Alps as recorded in varved sediments of Lake Mondsee (Upper Austria)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 78-90

  Swierczynski, Tina ^a   Lauterbach, Stefan ^a   Dulski, Peter ^a   Delgado, José ^b   Merz, Bruno ^a   Brauer, Achim ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

XRF; Detrital layers; Flood frequency; Microfacies; Palaeofloods; Varved lake sediments

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL LAYERS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MICRO-FACIES; PALAEOFLOODS;

DEBRIS; LAKES; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS;

FLOODS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BRONZE AGE; DEBRIS FLOW; EROSION; FLOOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HOLOCENE; IRON AGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MICROFACIES; NEOLITHIC; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SUMMER;

ALPS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRIA; EUROPE; MONDSEE [SALZBURG]; SALZBURG [AUSTRIA];

EID: 84884784900     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.018     Document Type: Article

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