Uplift, denudation, and their causes and constraints over geological timescales

Regional Geology and Tectonics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 608-644

  Gallagher, Kerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

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