Determining the growth rate of topographic relief using in situ-produced 10Be: A case study in the Black Forest, Germany

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 391-402

  Meyer, H ^a   Hetzel, R ^a   Fugenschuh B ^b   Strauss, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Black Forest; central Europe; cosmogenic nuclides; denudation; fission track analysis; topographic relief

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CENTRAL EUROPE; COOLING RATES; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DENUDATION RATES; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; EROSION RATES; EXHUMATION RATES; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; GERMANY; IN-SITU; JURASSIC SEDIMENTS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NEW APPROACHES; SMALL WATERSHEDS; STEADY STATE; STREAM SEDIMENTS; SUBCATCHMENTS; THERMAL MODELLING; TRIASSIC;

ANNEALING; APATITE; FISSION REACTIONS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

CATCHMENTS;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CATCHMENT; COOLING; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GNEISS; GRANITE; GROWTH RATE; JURASSIC; MOUNTAIN REGION; SANDSTONE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATERSHED;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY;

GRUS;

EID: 75149165574     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.034     Document Type: Article

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