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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Main Author: Prince, Philip S.
Other Authors: Geosciences
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 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/