Preservation of a large-scale bedrock peneplain suggests long-term landscape stability in southern Tibet

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 453-466

  Strobl, M ^a   Hetzel, R ^a   Ding, L ^b   Zhang, L ^b   Hampel, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c Leibniz Universität Hannover   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landscape evolution; Peneplain; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BEDROCK; FOOTWALL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRANITOID; HANGING WALL; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NORMAL FAULT; PENEPLAIN; PLANATION; RELIEF;

CHINA; LHASA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 78650338221     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2010/0054-0023     Document Type: Article

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