Assessing the age-weathering correspondence of cosmogenic 21Ne dated Pleistocene surfaces by the Schmidt Hammer

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1121-1125

  Sánchez, Jorge Sanjurjo ^a   Mosquera, Daniel Fernández ^a   Romaní, Juan Ramón Vidal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Absolute dating; Cosmogenic ages; Relative dating; Schmidt Hammer

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DATING; COSMOGENIC AGES; EXPOSURE AGE; HOLOCENES; PLEISTOCENE; R VALUE; REBOUND VALUE; RELATIVE DATING; ROCK DENSITY; ROCK STRENGTH; ROCK WEATHERING DEGREE; SCHMIDT HAMMER; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES;

EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HAMMERS; NEON; SEA LEVEL; TOOLS;

WEATHERING;

AGE DETERMINATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; WEATHERING RATE;

EID: 69249216564     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1802     Document Type: Article

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