Cosmogenic isotope data support previous evidence of extremely low rates of denudation in the Dry Valleys region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 162, Issue , 1999, Pages 255-267

  Summerfield, M A ^a   Sugden, D E ^a   Denton, G H ^b   Marchant, D R ^c   Cockburn, H A P ^a   Stuart, F M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NEOTECTONICS; TECTONICS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033370308     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.162.01.20     Document Type: Article

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