Multi-stream order analyses in basin asymmetry: A tool to discriminate the influence of neotectonics in fluvial landscape development (Madrid Basin, Central Spain)

Geomorphology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 130-144

  Garrote, Julio ^a   Garzón Heydt, Guillermina ^a   Cox, Randel Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin asymmetry; Fluvial terraces; Madrid Basin, Central Spain; Morphometric analysis; Neotectonics

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LINEAMENT; MORPHOMETRY; NEOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; TERRACE; TILT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MADRID BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 53549094114     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.07.023     Document Type: Article

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