Spatially variable exhumation rates in orogenic belts: An Andean example

Journal of Geology

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 665-681

  Safran, Elizabeth B ^a   Blythe, Ann ^a,b   Dunne, Thomas ^a,c  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BOLIVIA; CORDILLERA REAL [BOLIVIA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33750989350     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507613     Document Type: Article

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