Cosmogenic beryllium-10 and neon-21 dating of late Pleistocene glaciations in Nyalam, monsoonal Himalayas

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 295-311

  Schaefer, Joerg M ^a   Oberholzer, Peter ^b   Zhao, Zhizhong ^c   Ivy Ochs, Susan ^b   Wieler, Rainer ^b   Baur, Heinrich ^b   Kubik, Peter W ^b   Schlüchter, Christian ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM COMPOUNDS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE INFORMATION; MORAINE SEQUENCES; PLEISTOCENE GLACIATIONS; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; NEON; PLEISTOCENE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; NYALAM; XIZANG;

AMBLEMA PLICATA;

EID: 39149117972     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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