Denudation rates and a topography-driven rainfall threshold in northern Chile: Multiple cosmogenic nuclide data and sediment yield budgets

Geomorphology

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 97-120

  Kober, F ^a   Ivy Ochs, S ^a,b   Schlunegger, F ^c   Baur, H ^a   Kubik, P W ^a   Wieler, R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; Cosmogenic nuclides (10Be, 26Al, 21Ne); Erosion island plots; Erosion rates; Landscape evolution; Northern Chile; Orographic rainfall

Indexed keywords

CORDILLERA; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; OROGENY; OUTCROP; RAINFALL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ANDES; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [ANDES]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33751267272     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.06.029     Document Type: Article

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