24.312 - River sand fans and sandar

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Large sand deposits 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, 284-286; Mayhew and Penny, 1992: 169, 201; Leser, 1994; Einarsson, 1994: 154, 169-170; Waugh, 1995: 72, 107; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996: 26; Gudjonsson and Gislason, 1998.