River drainage patterns in the New Zealand Alps primarily controlled by plate tectonic strain

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 744-748

  Castelltort, Sébastien ^a,b   Goren, Liran ^b   Willett, Sean D ^b   Champagnac, Jean Daniel ^b   Herman, Frédéric ^b   Braun, Jean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELT; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DRAINAGE; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; RIVER FLOW; TECTONIC PLATE; TIMESCALE;

ALPS; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84867014846     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1582     Document Type: Article

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