Dating the Tejo river lower terraces in the Ródão area (Portugal) to assess the role of tectonics and uplift

Geomorphology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-54

  Cunha, Pedro P ^a   Martins, António A ^b   Huot, Sebastien ^c   Murray, Andrew ^c   Raposo, Luís ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d Museu Nacional de Arqueologia   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fluvial terraces; Incision rates; Luminescence dating; Portugal; Tectonics; Uplift

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; RIVER BED; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAGUS BASIN;

EID: 53549104436     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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