Sr-Nd-Os evidence for a stable erosion regime in the Himalaya during the past 12 Myr

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 474-480

  Galy, Valier ^a   France Lanord, Christian ^b   Peucker Ehrenbrink, Bernhard ^a   Huyghe, Pascale ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Bengal Fan; climate; erosion; Himalaya; Miocene; radiogenic isotopes

Indexed keywords

BENGAL FAN; C4 PLANT; CARBON STABLE ISOTOPES; CHANGING CLIMATE; DEEP SEA DRILLING; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROXIES; EROSION PATTERNS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; HIMALAYAN EROSION; HIMALAYAS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATE MIOCENE; LESSER HIMALAYA; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN RANGES; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; ORGANIC MATTER; PLEISTOCENE; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RADIOGENIC ISOTOPES; RAPID CHANGES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SIMULTANEOUS REDUCTION; SOUTHERN TIBET; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME PERIODS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLIMATE CONTROL; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; ORGANIC CARBON; OSMIUM; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE NETWORK; EROSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MIOCENE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; ORGANIC CARBON; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BENGAL FAN; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 75149135990     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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