Streams of the Montane Humid Tropics

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 595-611

  Scatena, F N ^a   Gupta, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Boulders; Mountain streams; Steep gradients; Tropical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903406551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00256-6     Document Type: Chapter

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