Modeling the Interaction between Lithospheric and Surface Processes in Foreland Basins

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 152-181

  Garcia Castellanos, Daniel ^a   Cloetingh, Sierd ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate; Crustal dynamics; Endorheism; Fluvial drainage; Lakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886163512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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