Monsoon triggered formation of Quaternary alluvial megafans in the interior of Oman

Geomorphology

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 128-139

  Blechschmidt, Ingo ^a   Matter, Albert ^a   Preusser, Frank ^a   Rieke Zapp, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Arabia; Luminescence dating; Monsoon; Oman; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; BIOTURBATION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MIOCENE; MONSOON; PLIOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUATERNARY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 67651121709     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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