Canyon incision and knickpoint propagation recorded by apatite 4He/3He thermochronometry

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 293, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 377-387

  Schildgen, Taylor F ^a   Balco, Greg ^b   Shuster, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4He 3He thermochronometry; Apatite; Incision; Knickpoint; Peru; Uplift

Indexed keywords

4HE/3HE THERMOCHRONOMETRY; BEDROCK INCISION; COOLING HISTORY; EARTH'S SURFACE; EVOLUTION MODELS; FLUVIAL INCISION; GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALES; INVERSION MODELS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NET EFFECT; OBSERVED DATA; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; THERMAL MODEL; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

APATITE; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; COOLING; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

APATITE; BEDROCK; COOLING; EXHUMATION; HELIUM ISOTOPE; INCISED VALLEY; INTERPOLATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPLIFT;

PERU;

EID: 77951298405     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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