Rates of fluvial bedrock incision within an actively uplifting orogen: Central Karakoram Mountains, northern Pakistan

Geomorphology

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 274-286

  Seong, Yeong Bae ^a   Owen, Lewis A ^a   Bishop, Michael P ^b   Bush, Andrew ^c   Clendon, Penny ^d   Copland, Luke ^e   Finkel, Robert C ^f   Kamp, Ulrich ^g   Shroder Jr , John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial incision rates; Strath terraces; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) surface exposure dating; Topography

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CATCHMENT; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; OROGENY; UPLIFT;

ASIA; BRALDU RIVER; EURASIA; KARAKORAM; NORTHERN AREAS; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 42649091131     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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