Climatic limits on landscape development in the northwestern Himalaya

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5312, 1997, Pages 571-574

  Brozović, Nicholas ^a,b   Burbank, Douglas W ^a   Meigs, Andrew J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EROSION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIATION; OROGENESIS; OROGENSIS; TECTONICS;

ASIA, HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0030620729     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5312.571     Document Type: Article

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45. Support for this research was provided by NSF (grants EAR 9205501 and EAR 9220056), National Geographic Research, and NASA. We thank B. L. Isacks and E. J. Fielding for contributions to the DEM analysis, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments. The hospitality and support of the staff at Victoria University, Wellington, are also acknowledged.