Time and process rates over the past 100 m.y.: A case for dramatically increased landscape denudation rates during the late Quaternary in northern Australia

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 883-887

  Nott, Jonathan ^a   Roberts, Richard G ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; TECTONICS;

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; ISOSTATIC UPLIFT; LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; TECTONIC STABILITY; DENUDATION RATES; LATE QUATERNARY;

EROSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENUDATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT; DENUDATION RATE; QUATERNARY (LATE); REGRESSION; SEA LEVEL;

AUSTRALIA; ARNHEM LAND; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 0030438706     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0883:TAPROT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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