Mountain ordering: A method for classifying mountains based on their morphometry

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 653-660

  Yamada, Shuji ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fractal analysis; Morphology; Morphometry; Mountain ordering; Relief structure

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN; RELIEF;

EID: 0032694602     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199907)24:7<653::AID-ESP984>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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