Diagnosing climatic and tectonic controls on topography: Eastern flank of the northern Bolivian Andes

Lithosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 230-250

  Gasparini, Nicole M ^a   Whipple, Kelin X ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECTONIC CONTROL;

BEDROCK; CHANNEL; DRAINAGE; EROSION RATE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LITHOLOGY; RAINFALL; RIVER; ROCK; UPLIFT;

ANDES;

EID: 84904606565     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L322.1     Document Type: Article

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