Erosion history of the Tibetan Plateau since the last interglacial: Constraints from the first studies of cosmogenic 10Be from Tibetan bedrock

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 33-42

  Lal, Devendra ^a   Harris, Nigel B W ^b   Sharma, Kewal K ^c   Gu, Zhaoyan ^d   Ding, L ^d   Liu, Tungsheng ^d   Dong, Weiquan ^a   Caffee, Marc W ^e   Jull, A J T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmochronology; Erosion; Tectonics; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; LAST INTERGLACIAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 0346965777     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00600-9     Document Type: Article

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