Rates of stream incision in the middle part of the Arkansas River basin based on late Tertiary to mid-Pleistocene volcanic ash

Geomorphology

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 205-228

  Ward Iii, Phillip A ^a   Carter, Brian J ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ash layer; Drainage basin; Stream incision

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; DRAINAGE BASIN; EROSION; STREAM CHANNEL; VOLCANIC ASH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033380955     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00073-7     Document Type: Article

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