Hillslope response to knickpoint migration in the Southern Appalachians: Implications for the evolution of post-orogenic landscapes

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1254-1267

  Wegmann, Sean F Gallen ^a   Franke, Kurt L ^b   Hughes, Stephen ^a   Lewis, Robert Q ^a   Lyons, Nathan ^a   Paris, Paul ^a   Ross, Kristen ^a   Bauer, Jennifer B ^c   Witt, Anne C ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c North Carolina Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel Hillslope coupling; Knickpoint migration; Post Orogenic landscape evolution; Southern appalachians; Transient phenomena

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIANS; CHANNEL-HILLSLOPE COUPLING; KNICKPOINT MIGRATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; TRANSIENT PHENOMENA;

DEBRIS; LITHOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; WEATHERING;

RIVERS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEBRIS FLOW; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LIDAR; LITHOLOGY; OROGENY; SLOPE ANGLE; STREAMFLOW; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WEATHERING;

APPALACHIANS; CULLASAJA BASIN; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054938833     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2150     Document Type: Article

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