Migrating deformation in the Central Andes from enhanced orographic rainfall

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Norton, Kevin ^a   Schlunegger, Fritz ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; FORCE; FRICTION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RIVER; ROCK; STEADY STATE; GEOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; RAIN; RIVERS;

EID: 84455171668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1590     Document Type: Article

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