Geomorphic coupling between hillslopes and channels in the Swiss Alps

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 959-969

  Savi, Sara ^a   Schneuwly Bollschweiler, Michelle ^a,b   Bommer Denns, Bastian ^a   Stoffel, Markus ^a,b   Schlunegger, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Coupling decoupling mechanisms; Hillslope channel processes; Source to sink; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; COUPLING RELATIONSHIPS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSFERS; SOURCE TO SINKS; TREE RINGS;

CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITION; FORESTRY; LANDSLIDES; RUNOFF;

SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DEBRIS FLOW; FLOOD; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIMESCALE;

DEPOSITION; EARTH MOVEMENT; FORESTRY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84880135373     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3342     Document Type: Article

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