Landslide-driven drainage network evolution in a pre-steady-state mountain belt: Finisterre Mountains, Papua New Guinea

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1071-1074

  Hovius, Niels ^a,e   Stark, Colin P ^b   Tutton, Matthew A ^c,f   Abbott, Lon D ^d  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea   (Papua New Guinea)

^d PRESCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GOLDER ASSOCIATES PTY LTD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GROUNDWATER; LANDSLIDES; SEEPAGE; TOPOGRAPHY;

DRAINAGE NETWORKS; DRAINAGE PATTERNS; FLUVIAL INCISION; GROUNDWATER SEEPAGE; MOUNTAIN BELTS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRE-STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

LANDFORMS;

DRAINAGE NETWORK; LANDSLIDE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84879881149     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<1071:LDDNEI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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