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Determining the Age of Terrace Formation Using Luminescence Dating—A Case of the Yellow River Terraces in the Baode Area, China [PDF]

open access: yesMethods and Protocols, 2020
Dating fluvial terraces has long been a challenge for geologists and geomorphologists, because terrace straths and treads are not usually directly dated.
Jia-Fu Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The First Description of the Microbial Diversity in the Amarillo River (La Rioja, Argentina), a Natural Extreme Environment Where the Whole Microbial Community Paints the Landscape Yellow [PDF]

open access: yesMicroorganisms
The Amarillo River in Famatina, La Rioja, Argentina, is a natural acidic river with distinctive yellow-ochreous iron precipitates along its course.
Cecilia Elena Bernardelli   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Human palaeoenvironment in the Upper Kama River basin: experience of reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2021
Here, we present the results of comprehensive (archaeological and palaeoecological) studies undertaken in 2014–2018 in the basin of the Upper Kama River in the north of Perm Region, eastern part of the East European Plain.
Lychagina E.L.   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

First Chronological Constraints for the High Terraces of the Upper Ebro Catchment

open access: yesQuaternary, 2021
The Cenozoic sedimentary basins in the Iberian Peninsula show a change from long-term basin infill to incision, a transition that indicates a period of major drainage reorganization that culminated in the throughflow of the networks to the Atlantic and ...
Josep M. Parés   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lateral variations in sedimentation records along the strike length of North Almora Thrust: Central Kumaun Himalaya

open access: yesQuaternary Science Advances, 2020
The present study has been carried out with special emphasis on the spatial and temporal variability of sedimentary architecture along the strike length of North Almora Thrust (NAT). Here, we investigated fluvial terraces along Saryu, Jaigan, Kosi, Gagas,
Girish Ch Kothyari   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Gravel Shapes Along the Khazir River, North of Iraq

open access: yesIraqi Geological Journal, 2023
This research work deals with the analyses of the shape and size of gravels within the terrace deposit of the Khazir River in the north of Iraq.
Ziyad Elias
doaj   +1 more source

Alluvial Terraces and Contaminant Sources of the Santa Catarina River in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area, Mexico

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2021
The development of the Monterrey Metropolitan Area (MMA) and human carelessness have severely altered the Santa Catarina River (SCR). The objective of this research was to integrate fieldwork, a digital elevation model, exploratory surveys and satellite ...
G. E. Martínez-Quiroga   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Petrographic and Geotechnical Aspects of the River Terraces at the University of Mosul as Buildings Foundations

open access: yesIraqi Geological Journal, 2023
This study explores the third stage of the Tigris River terraces at the University of Mosul. Due to its importance, most of its buildings, especially the modern ones, were built on these terraces, and some engineering problems appeared in those ...
Rahma Al-Auqadi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Holocene fluvial landscape evolution driven by sea level and tectonic controls in the Gangkou River, Hengchun Peninsula

open access: yesTerrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2021
The fluvial landscape of the Hengchun Peninsula in southernmost Taiwan is generally characterized by a narrow river and a wide valley plain. Such underfit stream features are unusual in tectonically active areas such as Taiwan.
Jia-Hong Chen   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sedimentation and geomorphology of the Ruoergai Basin outlet reach at the source of the Yellow River: Response to the late quaternary glacial debris flow damming events

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Fluvial terraces in the source of the Yellow River suggest that Ruoergai Basin was connected with the lower reach after ∼10 ka, much younger than the uplift chronology of the Tibetan Plateau.
Lingfan Shi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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