Processes, rates and patterns of mountain-belt erosion

Mountain Geomorphology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 109-131

  Hovius, Niels ^a   Lague, Dimitri ^a   Dadson, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 38349036448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203764824     Document Type: Chapter

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