Dynamic reorganization of River Basins

Science

Volumn 343, Issue 6175, 2014, Pages

  Willett, Sean D ^a   McCoy, Scott W ^a,b,c   Taylor Perron, J ^b   Goren, Liran ^a,d   Chen, Chia Yu ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCARPMENT; RIVER BASIN; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER SYSTEM; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; GEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; CLIMATE; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SOIL; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84896781964     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1248765     Document Type: Article

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