Quantifying the climatic and tectonic controls on hillslope steepness and erosion rate

Lithosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-80

  Pelletier, Jon D ^a   Rasmussen, Craig ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; ESTIMATION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS; TECTONICS; WEATHERING;

ENERGY-BASED MODELS; LITHOLOGIC CONTROLS; MODEL PREDICTION; PHYSICAL WEATHERING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL; SLOPE GRADIENTS; TECTONIC CONTROL; THRESHOLD CONDITION; SOIL PRODUCTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARID REGION; BEDROCK; CLIFF; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGOLITH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; WEATHERING RATE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; LITHOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 72149091848     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L3.1     Document Type: Article

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