Erosion rates over millennial and decadal timescales at Caspar Creek and Redwood Creek, Northern California Coast Ranges

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1025-1038

  Ferrier, Ken L ^a   Kirchner, James W ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic 10Be; Erosion rate; Northern California Coast Ranges

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DENUDATION; EROSION RATE;

EROSION;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; SEDIMENT YIELD;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; REDWOOD CREEK; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24944437657     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1260     Document Type: Article

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