Tectonic control on the drainage system in a piedmont region in tectonically active eastern Himalayas

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-38

  Goswami, Chandreyee ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Dhruba ^b   Poddar, Bikash Chandra ^c  

^a ASUTOSH COLLEGE   (India)

^b Raman Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences   (India)

^c BE 267 ^*  (India)

Author keywords

active tectonic; alluvial fan; drainage pattern; normal fault; thrust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858432994     PISSN: 16737385     EISSN: 16737490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-012-0297-z     Document Type: Article

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