Comment on "age and evolution of the grand canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems"

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5896, 2008, Pages

  Pederson, Joel ^a   Young, Richard ^b   Lucchitta, Ivo ^c   Beard, L Sue ^c   Billingsley, George ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; URANIUM;

GEOLOGY; MIOCENE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOIL EROSION; WATER TABLE;

EID: 52249089414     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158019     Document Type: Note

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