Early landscape evolution — A field and modelling assessment for a post-mining landform

Catena

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 699-708

  Hancock, G R ^a   Lowry, J B C ^b   Saynor, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mine rehabilitation; Sediment transport; Siberia; Soil erosion modelling

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FIELD METHOD; LANDFORM; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MINE; MODELING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

SIBERIA;

EID: 84983650206     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2016.08.015     Document Type: Article

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