Channel width response to differential uplift

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Amos, Colin B ^a   Burbank, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FAULT ZONE; PALEOCHANNEL; QUATERNARY; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34548295649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000672     Document Type: Article

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