El Niño forcing on 10Be-based surface denudation rates in the northwestern Peruvian Andes?

Geomorphology

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 257-268

  Abbühl, Luca M ^a   Norton, Kevin P ^a   Schlunegger, Fritz ^a   Kracht, Oliver ^a   Aldahan, Ala ^b,c   Possnert, Göran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

10Be denudation rates; El Ni o; Landscape transience; Northwestern Peruvian Andes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DENUDATION; DRAINAGE BASIN; EL NINO; ESCARPMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; TRANSITION ZONE; TRIBUTARY; WESTERLY; WIND;

ANDES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU; PIURA [PERU]; PIURA RIVER;

EID: 77956878234     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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