Dating soils and alluvium with cosmogenic 21Ne depth profiles: case studies from the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, USA

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 209-223

  Phillips, William M ^a   McDonald, Eric V ^b   Reneau, Steven L ^b   Jane Poths, ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIUM; EXPOSURE AGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SOIL;

UNITED STATES, NEW MEXICO, PAJARITO PLATEAU;

EID: 0031758734     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00076-4     Document Type: Article

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