Paleoenvironmental and geoarchaeological reconstruction from late Holocene slope records (Lower Huerva Valley, Ebro Basin, NE Spain)

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Pérez Lambán, Fernando ^a   Peña Monné, José Luis ^a   Fanlo Loras, Javier ^a   Picazo Millán, Jesús V ^a   Badia Villas, David ^a   Rubio Fernández, Virginia ^b   García Giménez, Rosario ^b   Sampietro Vattuone, María M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cold Iron Age; Ebro Depression; Geoarchaeology; Late Holocene; Little Ice Age; Medieval Climatic Anomaly; Paleoenvironment; Paleosol; Slope morpho dynamic; Warm Roman Period

Indexed keywords

EBRO DEPRESSION; GEO ARCHAEOLOGIES; IRON AGE; LATE HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL CLIMATIC ANOMALIES; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; SLOPE MORPHO-DYNAMIC; WARM ROMAN PERIOD;

ARID REGIONS; DEPOSITS;

IRON;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; IRON AGE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MORPHODYNAMICS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; RECONSTRUCTION; ROMAN ERA; SLOPE;

EBRO BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 84891827954     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.10.011     Document Type: Article

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