An analysis of cotswold topography: Insights into the landscape response to denudational isostasy

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-103

  Lane, N F ^a   Watts, A B ^a   Farrant, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BGS Keyworth   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ELASTICITY; EROSION RATE; ESCARPMENT; ISOSTASY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MORPHOMETRY; RELIEF; RIVER TERRACE; TECTONIC PLATE; UNLOADING; UPLIFT; VISCOELASTICITY;

COTSWOLD HILLS; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38949117945     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-179     Document Type: Article

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