Channel networks

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 289-327

  Rinaldo, Andrea ^a   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^b   Rigon, Riccardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL NETWORK; LANDFORM;

EID: 0031693476     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.289     Document Type: Article

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