Climate change and mountain topographic evolution in the central Karakoram, Pakistan

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 772-793

  Bishop, Michael P ^a   Bush, Andrew B G ^b   Copland, Luke ^c   Kamp, Ulrich ^d   Owen, Lewis A ^e   Seong, Yeong B ^f   Shroder Jr , John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Centralkarakoram; Climate forcing; Erosion; Glaciation; Landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; EXHUMATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MOUNTAIN;

KARAKORAM; PAKISTAN;

EID: 77956737106     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.500521     Document Type: Article

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