230Th/U dating of a late pleistocene alluvial fan along the southern san andreas fault

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1347-1359

  Fletcher, Kathryn E K ^a   Sharp, Warren D ^b   Kendrick, Katherine J ^c   Behr, Whitney M ^d   Hudnut, Kenneth W ^c   Hanks, Thomas C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; CALIFORNIA; CARBONATE COATING; CARBONATE FORMATIONS; CONSISTENT CONSTRAINT; EXPOSURE AGE; FORWARD MODELING; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MATRIX; PEDOGENIC CARBONATES; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; TIME LAG; U-SERIES; U-SERIES DATING;

COATINGS; LANDFORMS;

CARBONATION;

AGE DETERMINATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; CARBONATE; DEPOSITION; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CALIFORNIA; COACHELLA VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957043822     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30018.1     Document Type: Article

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