Flexural isostasy and differential erosion: Numerical modelling applied at the 'Seuil du Poitou'

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 334, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 1149-1155

  Maurin, Jean Christophe ^a   Renaud, Kim ^a  

^a UPRES EA 2612   (France)

Author keywords

Erosion; Flexure; France; Isostasy; Modelling

Indexed keywords

EROSION; FLEXURE; ISOSTASY; MODEL; UPLIFT;

FRANCE; POITOU-CHARENTES;

EID: 0036922358     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0713(02)01860-6     Document Type: Article

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