Quaternary bedrock erosion and landscape evolution in the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica: Reevaluating rates and processes

Geomorphology

Volumn 81, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 408-420

  Matsuoka, Norikazu ^a   Thomachot, Céline E ^b   Oguchi, Chiaki T ^c   Hatta, Tamao ^d   Abe, Masahiro ^a   Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^c SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cosmogenic exposure age; Erosion; Soil; Weathering

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; COLD REGION; CRYOTURBATION; DEGLACIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; QUATERNARY; SOIL PROFILE; WEATHERING;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; SOR RONDANE MOUNTAIN;

BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 33750458382     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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