Quantifying differential rock-uplift rates via stream profile analysis

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 415-418

  Kirby, Eric ^a   Whipple, Kelin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial erosion; Geomorphology; Neotectonics; Siwalik Hills; Stream gradient

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT-BEND FOLDS;

EROSION; ROCKS; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; STREAM FLOW; TECTONICS;

GEOLOGY;

BEDROCK; DOWNCUTTING; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIVER BED; STREAM CHANNEL; TECTONICS; UPLIFT; WATER EROSION;

INDIA;

EID: 84879886385     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0415:QDRURV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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