Exhumation by debris flows in the 2013 Colorado front range storm

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 391-394

  Anderson, Scott W ^a,b   Anderson, Suzanne P ^a   Anderson, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; WEATHERING;

CHANNEL EROSION; COLORADO FRONT RANGE; EROSION RATES; EXTREME EVENTS; HIGH SPATIAL DENSITY; MASS MOVEMENT; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; SEDIMENT YIELDS;

DEBRIS;

DEBRIS FLOW; EXHUMATION; EXTREME EVENT; LANDSCAPE; LANDSLIDE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STORM; TOPOGRAPHY;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929465353     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36507.1     Document Type: Article

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