How do landscapes record tectonics and climate?

Lithosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-164

  Whittaker, Alexander C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHANNEL GRADIENTS; CLIMATE SIGNALS; FOCUS OF RESEARCHES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MODELING TECHNIQUE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; TOPOGRAPHIC MODELS;

TECTONICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84870849166     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/RF.L003.1     Document Type: Article

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