Rapid formation of a modern bedrock canyon by a single flood event

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 477-481

  Lamb, Michael P ^a   Fonstad, Mark A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BEDROCK; CANYON; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; EARTH; FLOOD; LIMESTONE; MARS; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATERFALL;

LAKE GEORGE [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954229362     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo894     Document Type: Article

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