A quantitative evaluation of playfair's law and its use in testing long-term stream erosion models

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1317-1332

  Niemann, Jeffrey D ^a   Gasparini, Nicole M ^b   Tucker, Gregory E ^c   Bras, Rafael L ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Erosion; Junction; Model; Playfair; Uplift

Indexed keywords

BANK PROTECTION; SURFACE WATERS;

BASELEVEL LOWERING RATES; STREAM EROSION MODELS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

EROSION; NUMERICAL METHOD; STREAM CHANNEL;

EID: 0035504127     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.272     Document Type: Article

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