The legacy of initial conditions in landscape evolution

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-63

  Taylor Perron, J ^a   Fagherazzi, Sergio ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MARINE PROGRAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Initial conditions; Landscape evolution; Non linear systems; Self organization

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC STEPS; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; EVOLUTION MODELS; GEOMORPHIC PROCESS; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEM; IN-PROCESS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MODEL PREDICTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PATH DEPENDENCE; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SELF-ORGANIZATION; STABLE EQUILIBRIUM STATE; STREAMBEDS; TRANSIENT EVOLUTION;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LANDFORMS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SELF ORGANIZATION; STREAM BED; VALLEY;

EID: 84855350749     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2205     Document Type: Article

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