Low long-term erosion rates in high-energy mountain belts: Insights from thermo- and biochronology in the Eastern Pyrenees

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 208-218

  Gunnell, Y ^a   Calvet, M ^b   Brichau, S ^c   Carter, A ^c   Aguilar, J P ^d   Zeyen, H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

apatite fission track; apatite helium dating; biochronology; lithospheric thinning; peneplain; Pyrenees; topographic uplift

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION-TRACK; BIOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; PENEPLAIN; PYRENEES; TOPOGRAPHIC UPLIFT;

APATITE; BUILDINGS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; EROSION; FISSION REACTIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HELIUM; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

LANDFORMS;

APATITE; BIOCHRONOLOGY; COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; FISSION TRACK DATING; HELIUM; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PENEPLAIN; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TERTIARY; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 60649084573     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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