Late Quaternary glacial and climate history of the Pamir Mountains derived from cosmogenic 10Be exposure ages

Quaternary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 212-220

  Zech, Roland ^a   Abramowski, Uwe ^a   Glaser, Bruno ^a   Sosin, Pjotr ^b   Kubik, Peter W ^c   Zech, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b Tajik Academy of Science   (Tajikistan)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

10Be; Cosmogenic nuclides; Exposure dating; Glacial chronology; Pamir

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; MORAINE; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; PAMIRS; WORLD;

EID: 24144458513     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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