Quantified time scale for glacial valley cross-profile evolution in alpine mountains

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 637-640

  Brook, Martin S ^a,b   Kirkbride, Martin P ^a   Brock, Ben W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Glacial valleys; Landscape evolution; Morphology

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL VALLEYS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; OFFSHORE OXYGEN ISOTOPE; POWER-LAW EQUATIONS; SOUTHERN ALPS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; TECTONICS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; VALLEY GLACIER;

EID: 33747360976     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22700.1     Document Type: Article

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