Constraining landscape development of the Sri Lankan escarpment with cosmogenic nuclides in river sediment

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 402-414

  Vanacker, V ^a   von Blanckenburg, F ^a   Hewawasam, T ^b   Kubik, P W ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b Sabaragamuwa University   (Sri Lanka)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic nuclides; Denudation rates; Erosion; Escarpment retreat; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DENUDATION RATES; ESCARPMENT RETREAT; SRI LANKA;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COSMIC RAYS; EROSION; ISOTOPES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; ESCARPMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 33846013570     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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