Cirque development in a steadily uplifting range: Rates of erosion and long-term morphometric change in alpine cirques in the Ben Ohau Range, New Zealand

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1167-1175

  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

Alpine; Cirque; Glacial erosion; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALPINE CIRQUES; CIRQUE; EROSION RATES; GLACIAL EROSION; MORPHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; NEW ZEALAND;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CIRQUE; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL HISTORY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRY; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALASIA; BEN OHAU RANGE; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 33747447505     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1327     Document Type: Article

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