Downstream development of a detrital cooling-age signal: Insights from 40 Ar/ 39 Ar muscovite thermochronology in the Nepalese Himalaya

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 398, Issue , 2006, Pages 321-338

  Brewer, I D ^a   Burbank, D W ^b   Hodges, K V ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argon dating; Detrital ages; Erosion rate; Himalaya; Nepal

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; MICA; RUNOFF;

ARGON DATING; DETRITAL AGES; EROSION RATES; HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

EROSION;

ARGON; BEDROCK; CATCHMENT; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HYPSOMETRY; MOUNTAIN REGION; MUSCOVITE; SIGNAL; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

GANDAKI; HIMALAYAS; MARSYANDI RIVER; NEPAL;

EID: 34249790362     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2398(20)     Document Type: Article

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