Lateglacial and early Holocene surface exposure ages of glacial boulders in the Taiwanese high mountain range

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 298-311

  Hebenstreit, Robert ^a   Ivy Ochs, Susan ^b,c   Kubik, Peter W ^c   Schlüchter, Christian ^d   Böse, Margot ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC; EQUILIBRIUM LINE ALTITUDES; EXPOSURE AGE; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL LANDFORMS; HIGH MOUNTAINS; HOLOCENES; IN-SITU; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATEGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MORAINE BOULDERS; MULTI-STAGE; NEW RESULTS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; SURFACE EXPOSURE DATING;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; BOULDER; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MOUNTAIN; PLEISTOCENE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 78951491883     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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