Cosmogenic 3He concentrations in ancient flood deposits from the Coombs Hills, northern Dry Valleys, East Antarctica: Interpreting exposure ages and erosion rates

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 163-175

  Margerison, H R ^a,b   Phillips, W M ^a   Stuart, F M ^b   Sugden, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dry Valleys; Erosion rates; Exposure age; Landscape evolution; Paleoclimatology; Stable cosmogenic isotopes 3He

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENICS; EROSION RATES; TOPOGRAPHIC POSITION; VOLCANIC ASH;

DEPOSITS; FLOODS; HELIUM; TECTONICS;

EROSION;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; ARID ENVIRONMENT; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; FLOOD DEPOSIT; HELIUM ISOTOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; WEATHERING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 12144267299     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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