Persistent drainage migration in a numerical landscape evolution model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Pelletier, Jon D ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

1824 Hydrology: Geomorphology(1625); 3210 Mathematical geophysics: Modeling; 8110 Tectonophysics: Continental tectonics general (0905)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EROSION; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DRAINAGE MIGRATION; FLOW ROUTING; RIDGE MIGRATION;

CATCHMENTS;

DRAINAGE NETWORK; EROSION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; UPLIFT;

EID: 11844251983     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020802     Document Type: Article

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