The role of climate during high plateau formation. Insights from numerical experiments

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 372-390

  Garcia Castellanos, Daniel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Altiplano; Andes; endorheic basin; numerical model; orogen; surface processes

Indexed keywords

ALTIPLANO; ENDORHEIC BASIN; HIGH PLATEAU FORMATION; OROGENESIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEDIMENT TRAPS; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

ARIDITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; PLATEAU; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALTIPLANO; ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34247622733     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.039     Document Type: Article

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