Neotectonic control on river sinuosity at the western margin of the Little Hungarian Plain

Geomorphology

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 231-243

  Zamolyi A ^a,b   Szekely B ^a,c   Draganits, E ^c   Timar G ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine Carpathian Pannonian Junction; Little Hungarian Plain; Neotectonics; River sinuosity; Second Military Survey; Vienna Basin

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FAULTING; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MICRORELIEF; MIOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; RIVER CHANNEL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALPS; CARPATHIANS; DANUBE BASIN; EASTERN ALPS; LITTLE HUNGARIAN PLAIN; PANNONIAN BASIN; VIENNA BASIN; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

EID: 77956270119     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.028     Document Type: Article

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