Does climate change create distinctive patterns of landscape incision?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Wobus, Cameron W ^a,b   Tucker, Gregory E ^b   Anderson, Robert S ^b  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; INCISED VALLEY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MODELING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TECTONICS;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77958559446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JF001562     Document Type: Article

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