Present, past and potential denudation rates: is there a link? Tentative evidence from fission-track data, river sediment loads and terrain analysis in the South Indian shield

Geomorphology

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 135-153

  Gunnell, Y ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENT;

INDIA;

EID: 0032445345     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00026-9     Document Type: Article

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