Variability in erosion rates related to the state of landscape transience in the semi-arid Chilean Andes

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1736-1748

  Aguilar, Germán ^a,b,c   Riquelme, Rodrigo ^a   Martinod, Joseph ^b   Darrozes, José ^b   Maire, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ATACAMA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Glacial erosion; Landscape's transient state; Neogene erosion rates; Pediment; Semi arid Andes

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL EROSION; LANDSCAPE'S TRANSIENT STATE; NEOGENE EROSION RATES; PEDIMENT; SEMI ARID;

CATCHMENTS; DECORATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; POWER QUALITY;

EROSION;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL EROSION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NEOGENE; PEDIMENT; SEMIARID REGION;

ANDES; CHILE;

EID: 80053928914     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2194     Document Type: Article

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