Constraining the evolution of river terraces with integrated OSL and cosmogenic nuclide data

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-32

  Guralnik, Benny ^a   Matmon, Ari ^a   Avni, Yoav ^b   Porat, Naomi ^b   Fink, David ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggradation rate; Cosmogenic inheritance; Cosmogenic isotopes (10Be); Intercomparison of dating proxies; OSL

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 78449245998     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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