Surface uplift and climate change: The geomorphic evolution of the western Escarpment of the Andes of northern Chile between the Miocene and present

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 398, Issue , 2006, Pages 75-86

  Kober, Florian ^a   Schlunegger, Fritz ^b   Zeilinger, Gerold ^b   Schneider, Heinz ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Base level change; Climate change; Northern Chile; Transient landscape

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; EROSION; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BASE LEVEL CHANGE; GEOMORPHIC EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; NORTHERN CHILE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE; ESCARPMENT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; MORPHOMETRY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PALEOCLIMATE; SURFACE; UPLIFT; VALLEY; WATER;

ANDES; ARICA; ARICA AND PARINACOTA; CHILE; COASTAL CORDILLERA;

EID: 76149140916     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2398(05)     Document Type: Article

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