Climatic and topographic controls on the style and timing of Late Quaternary glaciation throughout Tibet and the Himalaya defined by 10Be cosmogenic radionuclide surface exposure dating

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 12-13, 2005, Pages 1391-1411

  Owen, Lewis A ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^b   Barnard, Patrick L ^c   Haizhou, Ma ^d   Asahi, Katsuhiko ^e   Caffee, Marc W ^f   Derbyshire, Edward ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOISOTOPES;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES (CRN); GLACIATION; SURFACE DATING; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROL;

GLACIERS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; WORLD; XIZANG;

EID: 18844412523     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.10.014     Document Type: Article

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