Recent fold growth and drainage development: The Janauri and Chandigarh anticlines in the Siwalik foothills, northwest India

Geomorphology

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 241-256

  Delcaillau, Bernard ^a   Carozza, Jean Michel ^b   Laville, Edgard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Drainage basins; Fold growth; Geomorphometry; NW India; Siwaliks; Stream networks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ANTICLINE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE BASIN; FAULT PROPAGATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SIWALIK HILLS; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33747101067     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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