Growing mountain ranges and quenched river networks

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 338, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1184-1193

  Castelltort, Sébastien ^a   Simpson, Guy ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dendritic networks; Landscape evolution; Network growth; River network; Tectonic geomorphology

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MOUNTAIN REGION; RIVER CHANNEL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

EID: 33845419608     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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