Evolution of transient topography on passive margins: A study of landscape disequilibrium in the southern Appalachian Mountains
The mechanism through which the Appalachian Mountains have maintained moderate relief some ~300 Myr after the cessation of mountain building has long puzzled geomorphologists. As recent studies have shown that Appalachian exhumation has occurred at slow rates consistent with isostatic rebound of thi...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77065 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05062011-110218/ |