The Significance of Terraces due to Climatic Oscillation

1 February 1945

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine

Vol. 82 (1) , 10-16
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800076767

Abstract

When describing river terraces in his recently published account of the “Ice Age in West China” Richardson has assumed without question that in a period characterized by climatic oscillation wetter (and generally also colder) episodes result in aggradation and that degradation follows diminished precipitation.

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