The post-glacial downcutting history in the Waihuka tributary of Waipaoa River, Gisborne district: Implications for tectonics and landscape evolution in the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

Marine Geology

Volumn 270, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 55-71

  Berryman, Kelvin ^a   Marden, Michael ^b   Palmer, Alan ^c   Wilson, Kate ^c   Mazengarb, Colin ^a   Litchfield, Nicola ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b Landcare Research Gisborne   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hikurangi subduction margin; knickpoint retreat; landscape evolution; New Zealand; post glacial; river terraces; tectonics; Waipaoa catchment

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; FLUVIAL TERRACES; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLACIAL RIVERS; GLACIAL TIME; HOLOCENES; INCISION RATES; INTEGRATED SOURCES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; NEW ZEALAND; REGIONAL TECTONICS; RIVER CATCHMENT; SEDIMENT SUPPLY;

CATCHMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TECTONICS;

RIVERS;

CATCHMENT; DOWNCUTTING; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; POSTGLACIAL; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEPHRA; UPLIFT;

GISBORNE; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIHUKA BASIN;

EID: 76449087297     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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