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

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Bird, Broxton W., Barr, Robert C., Commerford, Julie, Gilhooly, William P., III, Wilson, Jeremy J., Finney, Bruce, McLauchlan, Kendra, Monaghan, G. William
• Other Authors: Earth Sciences, School of Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sage 2019
• Subjects: anthropogenic environmental impacts; floodplain lakes; fluvial dynamics; Arctic; Avery; Pacific; Pacific Arctic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/21356

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)...