Quantitative testing of bedrock incision models for the Clearwater River, NW Washington State

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Tomkin, Jonathan H ^a,b   Brandon, Mark T ^a   Pazzaglia, Frank J ^c   Barbour, Jonathan R ^a   Willett, Sean D ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Geomorphology; Incision; Landscape evolution; Rivers; Topography

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; FLUVIAL PROCESS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INCISED VALLEY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MODELING;

CLEARWATER RIVER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0141856644     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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