Contemporary geomorphological activity throughout the proglacial area of an alpine catchment

Geomorphology

Volumn 188, Issue , 2013, Pages 83-95

  Carrivick, Jonathan L ^a   Geilhausen, Martin ^b   Warburton, Jeff ^c   Dickson, Neil E ^a   Carver, Steve J ^a   Evans, Andrew J ^a   Brown, Lee E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacier; Landscape denudation; LiDAR laser scanning; River; Sediment flux

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DENUDATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LIDAR; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84875812969     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.03.029     Document Type: Article

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