In situ low-relief landscape formation as a result of river network disruption

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7548, 2015, Pages 526-529

  Yang, Rong ^a   Willett, Sean D ^a   Goren, Liran ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PENEPLAIN; RELIEF; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER SYSTEM; UPLIFT;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GEOMETRY; LANDSCAPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; RIVER BASIN; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEA LEVEL; SOIL EROSION; STEADY STATE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84928565665     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14354     Document Type: Article

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