Multiple planation surfaces in basement regions: Implications for the reconstruction of periods of denudation and uplift in southern Zimbabwe

Geomorphology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-212

  Römer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Divergent weathering; Geomorphology; Numerical modelling of landscape development; Structural and lithological control; Tectonic geomorphology; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DENUDATION; FAULT SCARP; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PETROGRAPHY; PLANATION; RECONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRAIN; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 70549083910     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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