Quaternary tephrochronology helps define conditioning factors and triggering mechanisms of rock avalanches in NW Argentina

Quaternary International

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 261-275

  Hermanns, Reginald L ^a   Schellenberger, Andreas ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CARBON ISOTOPE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; FISSION TRACK DATING; OUTCROP; QUATERNARY; ROCK AVALANCHE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TRIGGER MECHANISM; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; ZIRCON;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 40749159957     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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