Meteoric 10Be dating of highly weathered soils from fluvial terraces in Taiwan

Quaternary International

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 185-196

  Tsai, Heng ^a   Maejima, Yuji ^b   Hseu, Zeng Yei ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic 10Be; Dating; Soil taxonomy; Stream terrace

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; OXISOL; RADIOCARBON DATING; RED SOIL; SOIL SCIENCE; TERRACE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 48649099951     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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