A numerical modelling technique that can account for alternations of uplift and subsidence revealed by Late Cenozoic fluvial sequences

Geomorphology

Volumn 165-166, Issue , 2012, Pages 124-143

  Westaway, Rob ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incision; Isostasy; Lithosphere; Rheology; Topography; Uplift

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; ISOSTASY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

EID: 84863615852     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.033     Document Type: Article

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