Landforms and landscape evolution in the Skardu, Shigar and Braldu Valleys, Central Karakoram

Geomorphology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-267

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

Central Karakoram; Glaciation; Glacier erosion; Landscape evolution; Outburst flood deposits Late Quaternary; Paraglaciation; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) exposure dating

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; QUATERNARY; VALLEY FILL;

ASIA; EURASIA; KARAKORAM; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 56149127626     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.04.026     Document Type: Article

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