Implications of the fault scaling law for the growth of topography: Mountain ranges in the broken foreland of north-east Tibet

Terra Nova

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 157-162

  Hetzel, Ralf ^a,b   Tao, Mingxin ^c   Niedermann, Samuel ^b   Strecker, Manfred R ^a   Ivy Ochs, Susan ^d   Kubik, Peter W ^d   Gao, Bo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MOUNTAIN; SCALE EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 2642516314     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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