Enhanced global continental erosion and exhumation driven by Oligo-Miocene climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Clift, Peter D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE EVENT; CLIMATE INSTABILITY; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; EROSION RATES; EURASIA; GLOBAL CLIMATES; KEY FACTORS; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN BELTS; SEASONALITY; SURFACE EROSION; SURFACE PROCESS; UPPER MANTLE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PROCESS CONTROL; SOIL MECHANICS; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CORRELATION; EXHUMATION; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN REGION; OLIGOCENE; RECYCLING; SEASONALITY; UPPER MANTLE;

AFRICA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77952217470     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043067     Document Type: Article

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