Orogen response to changes in climatic and tectonic forcing

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 218-228

  Whipple, Kelin X ^a   Meade, Brendan J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Critical wedge; Erosion; Rock uplift; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL WEDGE; DYNAMIC COUPLING; ROCK UPLIFT; TECTONIC FORCING; TOPOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORMATION; EROSION; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROCKS;

TECTONICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

EID: 33344459153     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.12.022     Document Type: Article

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