Climatic control of denudation in the deglaciated landscape of the Washington Cascades

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 469-473

  Moon, Seulgi ^a   Page Chamberlain, C ^a   Blisniuk, Kimberly ^b   Levine, Nathaniel ^a   Rood, Dylan H ^c   Hilley, George E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; DENUDATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; LANDSLIDE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS WASTING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIMESCALE;

CASCADE RANGE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 79960030170     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1159     Document Type: Article

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