Channel sinuosity of the Körös River system, Hungary/Romania, as possible indicator of the neotectonic activity

Geomorphology

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 223-230

  Petrovszki, Judit ^a   Timár, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Great Hungarian Plain; Hungary; K r s Cri River system; Neotectonics; Romania; Sinuosity

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DRAINAGE BASIN; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MEANDER; MICRORELIEF; NEOTECTONICS; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER SYSTEM; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALFOLD; HUNGARY; KOROS RIVER; ROMANIA;

EID: 77956296450     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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