How and when did the Yellow River develop its square bend?

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 951-954

  Lin, Aiming ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^a   Sun, Zhiming ^a   Yang, Tianshui ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Continental collision; Ordos block; Tibetan Plateau; Yellow river

Indexed keywords

TECTONIC CONTROLS;

MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

TECTONICS;

CHANNEL CHANGE; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COLLISION ZONE; RIVER CHANNEL; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHINA;

EID: 84879881066     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0951:HAWDTY>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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