Hillslopes, rivers, plows, and trucks: Mass transport on earth's surface by natural and technological processes

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1157-1166

  Haff, P K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Humans; Mass transport; Mass action; Technoloy

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENE; HUMANS; MASS TRANSPORT; MASS-ACTION; TECHNOLOY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; AUTOMOBILES; CLIMATOLOGY; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; MASS TRANSFER; RIVERS; TRUCKS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MASS MOVEMENT; MASS TRANSPORT; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; RIVER FLOW;

EID: 77955752557     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1902     Document Type: Article

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