Beryllium-10 dating of Mount Everest moraines indicates a strong monsoon influence and glacial synchroneity throughout the Himalaya

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 561-564

  Finkel, Robert C ^a,b   Owen, Lewis A ^b   Barnard, Patrick L ^b   Caffee, Marc W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic radionuclides; Everest; Geochronology; Glacial geology; Himalaya; Monsoon

Indexed keywords

SURFACE EXPOSURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MOISTURE; RADIOISOTOPES; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONSOON; MORAINE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

ASIA;

EID: 0038269852     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0561:BDOMEM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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