Uniform erosion rates and relief amplitude during glacial cycles in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, as revealed from OSL-thermochronology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 183-189

  Herman, Frédéric ^a   Rhodes, Edward J ^b   Braun, Jean ^c   Heiniger, Lukas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Glacial erosion; OSL dating; Relief change; Stochastic inversion; Thermal modeling; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TECTONICS; WEATHERING;

GLACIAL EROSION; OSL DATING; RELIEF CHANGE; STOCHASTIC INVERSION; THERMAL MODEL; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIER; QUATERNARY; RELIEF; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 77956011784     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.019     Document Type: Article

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