Tectonic uplift, threshold hillslopes, and denudation rates in a developing mountain range

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 743-746

  Binnie, Steven A ^a   Phillips, William M ^a,c   Summerfield, Michael A ^a   Fifield, L Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic nuclides; Denudation; Erosion control; Erosion rates; Orogenesis; San Bernardino Mountains

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; EROSION CONTROL; EROSION RATES; SLOPE FAILURE;

COSMOLOGY; EROSION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SLOPE STABILITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; OROGENY; TECTONICS; THRESHOLD; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; NORTH AMERICA; SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548098991     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23641A.1     Document Type: Article

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