Tectonic control of topography, rainfall patterns, and erosion during rapid post-12 Ma uplift of the Bolivian Andes

Lithosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 251-268

  Whipple, K X ^a,b   Gasparini, N M ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAINFALL PATTERNS; TECTONIC CONTROL;

CHANNEL; DEFORMATION; EROSION; EXHUMATION; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE; LOW TEMPERATURE; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ANDES; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84906986085     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L325.1     Document Type: Article

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