What is it about?

The focus is on tracing paleochannel courses, determining when these paleochannels were active, and understanding the patterns of avulsion

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Why is it important?

Five main courses of the Euphrates, from five different periods, have been identified

Perspectives

I did an intensive fieldwork in this paper

Dr Jaafar Jotheri
Durham University

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This page is a summary of: Holocene Avulsions of the Euphrates River in the Najaf Area of Western Mesopotamia: Impacts on Human Settlement Patterns, Geoarchaeology, January 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21548.
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