Implications of Late Pleistocene Glaciation of the Tibetan Plateau for Present-Day Uplift Rates and Gravity Anomalies

Quaternary Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 267-279

  Kaufmann, Georg ^a   Lambeck, Kurt ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glacial rebound; Gravity anomalies; Isostasy; Pleistocene glaciation; Tibet; Uplift

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL REBOUND; GLACIATION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; PLEISTOCENE (LATE); UPLIFT;

CHINA, QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; CHINA, TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0031391395     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1924     Document Type: Article

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