Cosmogenic 3He ages and frequency of late Holocene debris flows from Prospect Canyon, Grand Canyon, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 93-111

  Cerling, Thure E ^a   Webb, Robert H ^b   Poreda, Robert J ^c   Rigby, Alan D ^a   Melis, Theodore S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d Grand Canyon Monitoring Res Ctr   (United States)

Author keywords

3He; Arizona; Cosmogenic isotopes; Geomorphology; Grand Canyon; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEBRIS FLOW; HOLOCENE; RIVER CHANNEL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033368199     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00092-0     Document Type: Article

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