Beryllium-10 terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of Quaternary landforms in Death Valley

Geomorphology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 541-557

  Owen, Lewis A ^a   Frankel, Kurt L ^b   Knott, Jeffrey R ^c   Reynhout, Scott ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^d,e   Dolan, James F ^f   Lee, Jeffrey ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CEREGE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Death Valley; Lake Manly; Optically stimulated luminescence; Shore lines; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; BEACH; BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DESERT; EROSION; EXHUMATION; HILLSLOPE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUATERNARY; SHORELINE; SPIT;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650416795     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.10.024     Document Type: Article

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