Quantitative and qualitative insights into bedrock landform erosion on the South Indian craton using cosmogenic nuclides and apatite fission tracks

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 576-585

  Gunnell, Y ^a   Braucher, R ^b   Bourles D ^b   Andre G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

Backwearing; Cosmogenic nuclide dating; Downwearing; Erosion rate; Etchplain; India; Inselberg

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACK; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; INCISION RATES;

APATITE; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EROSION;

BEDROCK; DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; FISSION TRACK DATING; INSELBERG;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34249021684     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25945.1     Document Type: Article

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