Erosion on a line

Tectonophysics

Volumn 484, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 168-180

  Willett, Sean D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical wedge; Erosion; Surface process model; Tectonic model

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; ARBITRARY SURFACE VELOCITIES; DEFORMATION MODELS; DRAINAGE AREA; DRAINAGE BASIN; EARTH'S SURFACE; ERODIBILITY; EROSION LAW; EROSION MODELS; EROSION RATES; EROSION SURFACES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARAMETERIZED; PLANE-STRAIN MODELS; PROCESS MODEL; RIVER EROSION; RIVER NETWORK; STREAM CHANNELS; TECTONIC MODELS; UPLIFT RATE; WEDGE PROBLEMS;

CATCHMENTS; HYDRAULICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RIVERS; TECTONICS;

STRAIN RATE;

EROSION RATE; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANE STRAIN; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; TECTONIC WEDGE; UPLIFT;

EID: 77649181507     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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