Post-palaeozoic uplift history of southeastern Australia revisited: Results from a process-based model of landscape evolution

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-172

  Van Der Beek, P A ^a,b   Braun, J ^a   Lambeck, K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Denudation; Geomorphology; Southeastern highlands; Thermochronology; Uplift

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DENUDATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033120636     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.1999.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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