Timing and controls on late Quaternary landscape development along the eastern Sierra El Mayor range front in northern Baja California, Mexico

Geomorphology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 415-430

  Armstrong, Phillip A ^a   Perez, Rene ^a   Owen, Lewis A ^b   Finkel, Robert C ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Colorado River delta; Optically stimulated luminescence; Tectonics; Terraces; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides; Uplift

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70549098229     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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