Erosion in northwest Tibet from in-situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al in bedrock

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 116-125

  Kong, Ping ^a   Na, Chunguang ^a   Fink, David ^b   Ding, Lin ^a   Huang, Feixin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic nuclide; Erosion rate; Northwest Tibet; Tectonics; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BASALT; BERYLLIUM; ISOTOPES; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; TECTONICS;

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE; DENUDATION RATE; EROSION RATE;

EROSION;

ALUMINUM; BASALT; BERYLLIUM; EROSION; ISOTOPES; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; TECTONICS;

BASALT; BEDROCK; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; FISSION TRACK DATING; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; SANDSTONE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 33846439412     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1380     Document Type: Article

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