Cosmogenically enabled sediment budgeting

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-136

  Nichols, Kyle K ^a,b   Bierman, Paul R ^a   Caffee, Marc ^c,d   Finkel, Robert ^c   Larsen, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

10Be; Erosion; Mojave Desert; Piedmont; Sediment transport; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MULTISURFACED LANDFORMS; DISTAL WASH SURFACES; LOW-GRADIENT PEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT-BUDGETING TECHNIQUES;

ALUMINUM; ARID REGIONS; BERYLLIUM; CATCHMENTS; DATA REDUCTION; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

SEDIMENTS;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DESERT; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; PIEDMONT; SEDIMENT BUDGET;

CALIFORNIA; CHEMEHUEVI MOUNTAINS; MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 13944250256     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21006.1     Document Type: Article

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