Quantifying glacial moraine age, denudation, and soil mixing with cosmogenic nuclide depth profiles

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Schaller, M ^a   Ehlers, T A ^a   Blum, J D ^a   Kallenberg, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b International School of Stavanger   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; GLACIATION; MORAINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 69949118524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000921     Document Type: Article

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