Remnants of a fossil alluvial fan landscape of Miocene age in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile using cosmogenic nuclide exposure age dating

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 499-507

  Nishiizumi, Kuni ^a   Caffee, M W ^b,d   Finkel, R C ^b   Brimhall, G ^c   Mote, T ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Geomatrix Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; Atacama gravel; Complex exposure age; Cosmogenic nuclide; Erosion rate; Surface exposure age

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX EXPOSURE AGE; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE;

ARID REGIONS; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAVEL; RADIOISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; MIOCENE;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24144457544     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.032     Document Type: Article

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