Tracing the impact of glacia-interglacial climate variability on erosion of the southern Andes

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-134

  Hebbeln, Dierk ^a   Lamy, Frank ^b   Mohtadi, Mahyar ^a   Echtler, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andes; Climate change; Erosion; Marine sediments; Precipitation; Southeast Pacific

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MARINE SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION RATES; ANDES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SOUTHEAST PACIFIC; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; GLACIERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); CLIMATE CHANGE; CORDILLERA; EROSION; HOLOCENE; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT;

ANDES; CHILE; COASTAL CORDILLERA; SOUTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 33847001273     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23243A.1     Document Type: Article

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