Abrupt glacial valley incision at 0.8 Ma dated from cave deposits in Switzerland

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-146

  Haeuselmann, Philipp ^a   Granger, Darryl E ^b   Jeannin, Pierre Yves ^c   Lauritzen, Stein Erik ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institut Suisse de Speleologie et de Karstologie   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Burial age; Cave; Cosmogenic; Glacial erosion rate; Glacial valley; Speleogenesis; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL EROSION RATE; GLACIAL VALLEY; SWITZERLAND; BURIAL AGE; COSMOGENIC; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL VALLEYS; SPELEOGENESIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; SEDIMENTATION; CAVES; EROSION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CAVE DEPOSIT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; GLACIER; LANDSCAPE; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOLOGY; CAVE; EQUILIBRIUM LINE; EROSION RATE; MOUNTAIN; VALLEY;

AARE VALLEY; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33846973020     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23094A     Document Type: Article

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