Climatic and tectonic forcing of a critical orogen

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 398, Issue , 2006, Pages 241-250

  Stolar, Drew B ^a   Willett, Sean D ^a   Roe, Gerard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical wedge; Erosion; Numerical modeling; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EROSION; NUMERICAL MODELS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CRITICAL WEDGE; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; SANDBOX EXPERIMENTS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; STEADY-STATE SCALING; TRANSIENT EVOLUTION;

TECTONICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DEFORMATION; EROSION RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; PERTURBATION; SIMULATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

EID: 76149089878     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2398(14)     Document Type: Article

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