Controls of initial topography on temporal and spatial patterns of glacial erosion

Geomorphology

Volumn 223, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-116

  Pedersen, Vivi K ^a   Huismans, Ritske S ^a   Herman, Frédéric ^b   Egholm, David L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Erosion; Glaciation; Landscape evolution; Numerical modelling; Southeast Australia; Southern Taiwan

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE CORE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA; TAIWAN;

EID: 84904665969     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.06.028     Document Type: Article

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