Cenozoic climate change as a possible cause for the rise of the Andes

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6960, 2003, Pages 792-797

  Lamb, Simon ^a   Davis, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; EROSION; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR STRESS; TRENCHING;

SUBDUCTION ZONES;

TECTONICS;

ARTICLE; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LATITUDE; MOUNTAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; SHEAR STRESS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0242363241     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02049     Document Type: Article

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