The African landscape through space and time

Tectonics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 898-935

  Paul, Jonathan D ^a   Roberts, Gareth G ^a,b   White, Nicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Cenozoic; dynamic topography; geophysical inversion; river profiles; uplift

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; DRAINAGE; TOPOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; CENOZOIC; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; GEOPHYSICAL INVERSION; RIVER PROFILE; UPLIFT;

RIVERS;

CENOZOIC; DRAINAGE NETWORK; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY; RIVER CHANNEL; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

AFRICA;

EID: 84904804342     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013TC003479     Document Type: Article

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