Nonsynchronous, episodic incision: Evidence of threshold exceedance and complex response as controls of terrace formation

Geomorphology

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 320-329

  Cheetham, M D ^a   Bush, R T ^a   Keene, A F ^a   Erskine, W D ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catastrophic floods; Chronology; Geomorphic thresholds; Late Quaternary; Terraces

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CATCHMENT; CHRONOLOGY; EPISODIC EVENT; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; THRESHOLD; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALIA; HUNTER RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 77956877890     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.07.024     Document Type: Article

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