Five million years of Appalachian landscape evolution preserved in cave sediments

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 404, Issue , 2006, Pages 39-50

  Anthony, Darlene M ^a   Granger, Darryl E ^b  

^a Roane State Community College   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian plateaus; Cave sediments; Cosmogenic nuclides; Cumberland river; Multilevel caves; River incision

Indexed keywords

CAVES; GRAVEL; SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW;

APPALACHIAN; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; EPISODIC INCISION; FLOOD PLAINS; GRAVEL DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; SURFACE MATERIALS;

RIVERS;

CAVE; DEPOSITION; FLOODPLAIN; GRAVEL; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION;

CUMBERLAND RIVER; HIGHLAND RIM; KENTUCKY; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73949084944     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2404(05)     Document Type: Article

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