Relationships between tectonics, slope instability and climate change: Cosmic ray exposure dating of active faults, landslides and glacial surfaces in the SW Alps

Geomorphology

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Sanchez, G ^a   Rolland, Y ^a   Corsini, M ^a   Braucher, R ^b   Bourles D ^b   Arnold, M ^c   Aumaitre G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Cosmic ray exposure dating; Landslide; South western Alps; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; DEGLACIATION; FAULT SCARP; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; LANDSLIDE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; SEISMICITY; SLOPE STABILITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARGENTERA MASSIF;

EID: 77549086249     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.10.019     Document Type: Article

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