10Be exposure ages of ancient desert pavements reveal Quaternary evolution of the Dead Sea drainage basin and rift margin tilting

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 132-141

  Guralnik, Benny ^a   Matmon, Ari ^a   Avni, Yoav ^b   Fink, David ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

cosmogenic isotopes (10Be); Dead Sea Rift; desert pavement; drainage reversal; subsidence rate

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM; COSMOGENIC ISOTOPES; CURRENT DRAINAGE; DEAD SEA; DESERT PAVEMENT; DRAINAGE BASIN; EARLY-TO-LATE; EVOLUTION HISTORY; EXPOSURE AGE; FLUVIAL RESPONSE; LATE PLIOCENE; NEGEV DESERT; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PAVEMENT DRAINAGE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY EVOLUTION; SHORT PERIODS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; PAVEMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SUBSIDENCE;

CATCHMENTS;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DRAINAGE; PAVEMENT; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RIFT ZONE; SUBSIDENCE;

DEAD SEA RIFT; ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 74149085742     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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