Denudation rates of crystalline rock in the Huangling anticline of the three gorges of the Yangtze River in China since the Eocene

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 928-940

  Zhang, Liping ^a   Yang, Dayuan ^b   Zhu, Dakui ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crystalline rock; Denudation rate; Huangling anticline; Initial denudation age; Reconstruction of the paleotopography

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; GRAVEL; RIVERS;

DENUDATION; TOPOGRAPHIES;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DENUDATION; EOCENE; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; THREE GORGES; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 0348172442     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02yd0467     Document Type: Article

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