Rock to sediment - Slope to sea with 10Be - Rates of landscape change

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue , 2004, Pages 215-255

  Bierman, Paul Robert ^a   Nichols, Kyle Keedy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic; Erosion; Geomorphology; Isotope; Nuclide

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EARTH (PLANET); ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

DESERT PIEDMONTS; NUCLIDES;

GEOLOGY;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SEDIMENTATION;

EID: 3042653172     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.32.101802.120539     Document Type: Review

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