Glacier and landslide feedbacks to topographic relief in the Himalayan syntaxes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5317-5322

  Korup, Oliver ^a,d   Montgomery, David R ^b   Hewitt, Kenneth ^c  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Erosion; Tectonic geomorphology

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIER; LANDSLIDE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; ROCK; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950435424     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907531107     Document Type: Article

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