Block and debris deposits in the high Drakensberg, Lesotho, southern Africa: Implications for high altitude slope processes

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-16

  Grab, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Blockstreams; Debris deposits; High Drakensberg; Slope processes

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; MASS MOVEMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SLOPE PROCESS;

(SOUTHERN); AFRICA;

EID: 0033036072     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.1999.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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