Steepened channels upstream of knickpoints: Controls on relict landscape response

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Berlin, Maureen M ^a   Anderson, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION RATE; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATIGRAPHY; DATA SET; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; WATERFALL;

COLORADO; COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; ROAN PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954329161     PISSN: 21699003     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JF001148     Document Type: Review

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