24.212 - River gravel fans and sandar

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Large beds of gravels, pebbles, boulders or mixed coarse and fine sediments constituting outwash fans, alluvial fans, sandar (sandur), deposited and criss-crossed by braided rivers of the Palaearctic region, characteristic, in particular, of boreal and arctic lands with intense fluvio-glacial deposition.

Bibliography

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Whitten and Brooks, 1972: 62; Whittow, 1984: 71-72, 467; Clark, 1990: 279; Schubert, 1991; Summerfield, 1991: 210-211, 222-223, 284-287; Mayhew and Penny, 1992: 169, 201; Leser, 1994; Einarsson, 1994: 154, 169-170; Waugh, 1995: 72, 107; Glazovskij, 1995: 27; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996: 26; Gudjonsson and Gislason, 1998.