Catchment-wide denudation rates at the margin of NE Tibet from in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be

Terra Nova

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-48

  Palumbo, Luigi ^a   Hetzel, Ralf ^a   Tao, Mingxin ^b,c   Li, Xiaobin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; MASS TRANSPORT; MORPHOLOGY; SLOPE ANGLE; SLOPE STABILITY;

CHINA; QILIAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 78651444221     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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