Uplift and denudation history at low-elevation passive margins: Insights from morphostratigraphic analysis in the SE Armorican Massif along the French Atlantic margin

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 342, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-222

  Bétard, François ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Armorican Massif; Denudation rates; France; Morphostratigraphy; Palaeolandforms; Palaeosaprolites; Passive margins; Tectonic uplift

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; EOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOSURFACE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PASSIVE MARGIN; SAPROLITE; STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ARMORICAN MASSIF; BRETAGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 77951263152     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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