Anatomy of a 'fossil' landslide from the Pleistocene of SE Spain

Geomorphology

Volumn 50, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 135-149

  Mather, Anne ^a   Griffiths, James S ^a   Stokes, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base level; Drainage evolution; Lanslide; River capture; SE Spain

Indexed keywords

DOWNCUTTING; DRAINAGE NETWORK; LANDSLIDE; PLEISTOCENE; STREAM CAPTURE;

SPAIN;

EID: 0037306924     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(02)00211-8     Document Type: Article

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