Glacial effects limiting mountain height

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7257, 2009, Pages 884-887

  Egholm, D L ^a   Nielsen, S B ^a   Pedersen, V K ^a   Lesemann, J E ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GLACIOLOGY; HEIGHT; MOUNTAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; EVOLUTION; GLACIATION; GLACIER; GLOBAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; MOUNTAIN HEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 68949109738     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08263     Document Type: Article

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