Climatic versus tectonic control on river incision at the margin of NE Tibet: 10Be exposure dating of river terraces at the mountain front of the Qilian Shan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Hetzel, Ralf ^a   Niedermann, Samuel ^b   Tao, Mingxin ^c   Kubik, Peter W ^d   Strecker, Manfred R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; CLIMATE; DATING METHOD; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RED BED; RIVER TERRACE; TECTONICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; SHIYOU RIVER; XIZANG;

EID: 34147185386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JF000352     Document Type: Article

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