Process-form relationships in Southern Italian badlands: Erosion rates and implications for landform evolution

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-29

  Clarke, Michèle L ^a   Rendell, Helen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badlands; Biancane; Calanchi; Erosion; Pediment

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CRACKS; CREEP; EROSION; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; ROCKS; SURFACES; WEATHERING;

BADLANDS; BIANCANE; CALANCHI; CLAY BEDROCK; EROSION RATES; PEDIMENT; SURFACE WEATHERING;

LANDFORMS;

CLAY; CRACKS; CREEP; EROSION; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; ROCKS; SURFACES; WEATHERING;

BADLANDS; EROSION RATE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION;

BASILICATA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 32444447255     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1226     Document Type: Article

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