Estimating uplift rate and erodibility from the area-slope relationship: Examples from Brittany (France) and numerical modelling

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy

Volumn 25, Issue 6-7, 2000, Pages 543-548

  Lague, D ^a   Davy, P ^a   Crave, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; SLOPE DYNAMICS; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT; WEATHERING;

FRANCE;

EID: 0033756578     PISSN: 14641895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1464-1895(00)00083-1     Document Type: Article

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