Holocene flooding and climate change in the Mediterranean

Catena

Volumn 130, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-33

  Benito, Gerardo ^a   Macklin, Mark G ^b,c   Zielhofer, Christoph ^d   Jones, Anna F ^e   Machado, Maria J ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme events; Holocene; Mediterranean; Palaeofloods; Palaeohydrology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939973915     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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