Surface ages and rates of erosion at the Calico Archaeological Site in the Mojave Desert, Southern California

Geomorphology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-50

  Owen, Lewis A ^a   Davis, Teresa ^a   Caffee, Marc W ^b   Budinger, Fred ^a   Nash, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Calico; Erosion; Mojave Desert; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

LOESELIASTRUM; YERMO;

EID: 78349305565     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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