A tale of two scales, or the two geomorphologies

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 402-415

  Summerfield, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denudation rates; Geochronological techniques; Landscape evolution; Numerical modelling; Scale

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 33745258194     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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