Moraine dam related to late Quaternary glaciation in the Yulong Mountains, southwest China, and impacts on the Jinsha River

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3224-3235

  Kong, Ping ^a   Na, Chunguang ^a   Fink, David ^b   Zhao, Xitao ^a   Xiao, Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; EURASIA; EXPOSURE AGE; FLUVIAL TERRACES; LATE QUATERNARY; MORAINE BOULDERS; SLIP RATES; SOUTHWEST CHINA; WESTERN SIDE;

DAMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RIVERS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

LANDFORMS;

BOULDER; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DIP-SLIP FAULT; DRAINAGE; GLACIATION; MORAINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUATERNARY; TERRACE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YULONG SNOW MOUNTAINS; YUNNAN;

EID: 70450237031     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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