Tributary-junction fans of China's Yangtze Three-Gorges valley: Morphological implications

Geomorphology

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 131-139

  Wang, Hui ^a   Harvey, Adrian M ^b   Xie, Shiyou ^c   Kuang, Mingsheng ^a   Chen, Zhongyuan ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Catchment thresholds; Morphometric characteristics; Three Gorges; Tributary fans; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CATCHMENT; FAN DELTA; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; INCISED VALLEY; MORPHOMETRY; THRESHOLD; TRIBUTARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; THREE GORGES; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 48649083611     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.10.028     Document Type: Article

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