Predicting sediment flux from fold and thrust belts

Basin Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 329-349

  Tucker, Gregory E ^a,b   Slingerland, Rudy ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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EID: 0000469865     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1996.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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