External controls on Quaternary fluvial incision and terrace formation at the Segre River, Southern Pyrenees

Tectonophysics

Volumn 602, Issue , 2013, Pages 316-331

  Stange, Kurt Martin ^a   van Balen, Ronald ^a   Vandenberghe, Jef ^a   Peña, Jose Luis ^b   Sancho, Carlos ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Base level mechanisms; Ebro Basin; Fluvial terraces; Pyrenees; Segre River; Tectonic Geomorphology

Indexed keywords

EBRO BASIN; FLUVIAL TERRACES; LEVEL MECHANISM; PYRENEES; TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY;

DRAINAGE; SEA LEVEL; STAIRS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

RIVERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORMATION; DRAINAGE; FAULTING; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FOLDING; FORELAND BASIN; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TERRACE;

CATALONIA; CATALONIAN COASTAL RANGES; EBRO BASIN; PYRENEES; SEGRE RIVER; SPAIN;

EID: 84881099047     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.10.033     Document Type: Article

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