Exposure dating outwash gravels to determine the age of the greatest Patagonian glaciations

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-106

  Hein, Andrew S ^a   Dunai, Tibor J ^a   Hulton, Nicholas R J ^a   Xu, Sheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; ARGENTINA; CLIMATE PROXIES; COSMOGENIC; EXPOSURE AGE; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; PATAGONIA; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; GRAVEL; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; MORAINE; OUTWASH; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

PATAGONIA;

EID: 78851471482     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31215.1     Document Type: Article

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