Origin and interpretation of knickpoints in the Big South Fork River basin, Kentucky-Tennessee

Geomorphology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 188-198

  Phillips, Jonathan D ^a   McCormack, Sarah ^a   Duan, Jidan ^a   Russo, Joseph P ^b   Schumacher, Anne M ^a   Tripathi, Ganesh N ^a   Brockman, Ruth B ^a   Mays, Adam B ^b   Pulugurtha, Sruti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big South Fork; Knickpoint; Knickzone; Longitudinal profile

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DRAINAGE NETWORK; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HEADWATER; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; RIVER BASIN;

BIG SOUTH FORK NATIONAL RIVER AND RECREATION AREA; KENTUCKY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70749127547     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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