Landslide erosion coupled to tectonics and river incision

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 468-473

  Larsen, Isaac J ^a   Montgomery, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; FLOOD; FLUVIAL PROCESS; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; MOUNTAIN REGION; NONLINEARITY; OUTBURST; RIVER FLOW; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE ANGLE; TECTONIC SETTING; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UPLIFT; WATER EROSION;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84863329278     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1479     Document Type: Article

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