Numerical modelling of landscape evolution on geological time-scales: a parameter analysis and comparison with the south-eastern highlands of Australia

Basin Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-68

  Van Der Beek, Peter ^a,b   Braun, Jean ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Institut Dolomieu   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031664659     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1998.00056.x     Document Type: Article

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