Shifts in the intertropical convergence zone, Himalayan exhumation, and late Cenozoic climate

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-14

  Armstrong, Howard A ^a   Allen, Mark B ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; ATMOSPHERIC CO; DUCTILE SHEARING; EARLY MIOCENE; EURASIA PLATE; GLOBAL COOLING; HIGH PRECIPITATIONS; HIMALAYAN EROSION; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN PLATE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATE CENOZOIC; MIOCENE; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SILICATE WEATHERING;

EROSION; ORGANIC CARBON; SILICATES; TECTONICS; WEATHERING;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EROSION; EXHUMATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 78751487920     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31005.1     Document Type: Article

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