Late-Holocene floodplain development, land-use, and hydroclimate–flood relationships on the lower Ohio River, US ...

• Main Authors: Broxton W Bird, Barr, Robert C, Commerford, Julie, Gilhooly, William P, Wilson, Jeremy J, Finney, Bruce, McLauchlan, Kendra, G William Monaghan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Figshare 2019
• Subjects: Geography; History; Arctic; Avery; Pacific; Pacific Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.4603433; https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Late-Holocene_floodplain_development_land-use_and_hydroclimate_flood_relationships_on_the_lower_Ohio_River_US/4603433

Floodplain development, land-use, and flooding on the lower Ohio River are investigated with a 3100-year-long sediment archive from Avery Lake, a swale lake on the Black Bottom floodplain in southern Illinois, US. In all, 12 radiocarbon dates show that Avery Lake formed at 1130 BCE (3100 cal. yr BP)...