Sediment flux from a mountain belt derived by landslide mapping

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 231-234

  Hovius, Niels ^a,c   Stark, Colin P ^b   Allen, Philip A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION;

COMPLETE RESPONSE; DENUDATION RATES; DERIVED MATERIALS; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LANDSLIDE MAPPING; MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE;

LANDSLIDES;

DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING METHOD; MOUNTAIN REGION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; DENUDATION RATE; HUMID UPLANDS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE MAPPING; MASS WASTING; SEDIMENT FLUX;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 0030850250     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0231:SFFAMB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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