Sediment sources in a small, abandoned farmland catchment, Central Spanish Pyrenees

  1. González, C. 1
  2. García-Ruiz, J.M. 1
  3. Martí, C. 1
  4. White, S. 1
  5. Errea, M.P. 1
  6. Arnáez, J. 2
  1. 1 Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
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    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/039ssy097

  2. 2 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Revista:
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

ISSN: 1474-7065

Any de publicació: 1997

Volum: 22

Número: 3

Pàgines: 291-293

Tipus: Article

Altres publicacions en: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

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Resum

In an abandoned farmland catchment the eroded areas have been mapped in order to locate the possible sediment sources. Besides large, non functional mass movements, three types of processes and geoforms stand out: small debris flows, areas where sheet wash erosion prevails and scars located in the taluses flanking the main ravine. Fieldwork and the first results obtained on sediment transport at the outlet of the catchment suggest that the sediment contributing area, representing less than 1 percent of the basin, is mostly the channel itself and its taluses. © 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.