Dating faulted alluvial fans with cosmogenic 10Be in the Gurvan Bogd mountain range (Gobi-Altay, Mongolia): Climatic and tectonic implications

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 278-285

  Vassallo, Riccardo ^a   Ritz, Jean François ^a   Braucher, Régis ^b   Carretier, Sébastien ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b CEREGE   (France)

^c BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; FAULT ZONE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SLIP RATE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GOVI-ALTAY; MONGOLIA; WORLD;

EID: 20844460319     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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