Global climate and tectonic controls on the denudation of glaciated mountains

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 325-326, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-75

  Yanites, Brian J ^a,b   Ehlers, Todd A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate; Erosion rate; Erosion variability; Glacial erosion; Landscape evolution; Quaternary geology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE; DENUDATION RATES; EROSION RATE; EROSION RATES; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL LANDSCAPES; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HILLSLOPES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; MODEL PREDICTION; MOUNTAIN RANGES; PERIODIC VARIATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TECTONIC CONTROL; TECTONIC UPLIFT; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE MODELS; EFFICIENCY; EROSION; FORECASTING; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; QUATERNARY; TECTONICS;

EID: 84857345884     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.030     Document Type: Article

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