Quantifying landscape differences across the Tibetan plateau: Implications for topographic relief evolution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Liu Zeng, J ^a,b   Tapponnier, P ^b   Gaudemer, Y ^b   Ding, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PLATEAU; PLIOCENE; RADAR IMAGERY; RIVER SYSTEM; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 61849162214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000897     Document Type: Article

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