Large rockslides in the Southern Central Andes of Chile (32-34.5°S): Tectonic control and significance for Quaternary landscape evolution

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 117-133

  Antinao, Jose Luis ^a   Gosse, John ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic dating; Landscape evolution; Quaternary; Rockslides; Southern Central Andes

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58249094848     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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