Himalayan drainage patterns and the origin of fluvial megafans in the Ganges foreland basin

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-14

  Gupta, Sanjeev ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CURRICULA; MERGING; TOPOGRAPHY;

DRAINAGE PATTERNS; FORELAND BASIN; HIMALAYAN RIVERS; LATERAL GROWTH; LINKED STRUCTURES; MAIN BOUNDARY THRUSTS; POINT SOURCES; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL;

RIVER DIVERSION;

ANTICLINE; DRAINAGE BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; MOUNTAIN REGION; RIVER BASIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

GANGES BASIN; HIMALAYAS; NEPAL; SIWALIK HILLS;

EID: 84879884652     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0011:HDPATO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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