Incised meanders along the mixed bedrock-alluvial Orange River, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 273-292

  McCarthy, Terence S ^a   Tooth, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNCUTTING; INCISED VALLEY;

AFRICA; NORTHERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 32144462813     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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