Limits to quantifying climate driven changes in denudation rates with cosmogenic radionuclides

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 153-167

  Schaller, M ^a   Ehlers, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; climate change; cosmogenic radionuclides; denudation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DENUDATION; OROGEN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; DRAINAGE BASIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; SEA LEVEL;

EID: 33746687018     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.05.027     Document Type: Article

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