Controls on post-mid-Cretaceous landscape evolution in the southeastern highlands of Australia: Insights from numerical surface process models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B3, 1999, Pages 4945-4966

  Van Der Beek, Peter ^a,b   Braun, Jean ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

(SOUTHEAST); AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033541049     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jb900060     Document Type: Article

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