Structural and topographic evolution of the central Transverse Ranges, California, from apatite fission-track, (U-Th)/He and digital elevation model analyses

Basin Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-114

  Blythe, ^a,b,c   Burbank, ^a,b,c   Farley, ^a,b,c   Fielding, ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FISSION TRACK DATING; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033816836     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2000.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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