Response of a steady-state critical wedge orogen to changes in climate and tectonic forcing

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 398, Issue , 2006, Pages 227-239

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Erosion; Orography; Precipitation; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EROSION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ANALYTICAL SCALING; CLIMATE; EXHUMATION RATES; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION RATES; ROCK UPLIFT RATES; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; TECTONIC FORCING;

TECTONICS;

CLIMATE; EROSION; EXHUMATION; HILLSLOPE; OROGRAPHY; ROCK; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

EID: 76149141851     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2005.2398(13)     Document Type: Article

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