Empirical evidence of climate's role in Rocky Mountain landscape evolution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Riihimaki, Catherine A ^a   Reiners, Peter W ^b  

^a DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL SEAM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; GLACIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MOUNTAIN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ZIRCON;

POWDER BASIN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859898569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002137     Document Type: Article

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