Drainage evolution in response to fold growth in the hanging-wall of the Khazar fault, north-eastern Alborz, Iran

Basin Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 425-436

  Ghassemi, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; FAULT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HANGING WALL; NEOTECTONICS;

ASIA; ELBURZ; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 29144481796     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2005.00271.x     Document Type: Review

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