Application of a combination of dating techniques to reconstruct the Lateglacial and early Holocene landscape history of the Albula region (eastern Switzerland)

Geomorphology

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-13

  BÖhlert, Ralph ^a   Egli, Markus ^a   Maisch, Max ^a   Brandová, Dagmar ^a   Ivy Ochs, Susan ^a,b   Kubik, Peter W ^b   Haeberli, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic 10Be; Dating methods; Lateglacial landscape evolution; Schmidt hammer; Weathering rinds

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LATE GLACIAL; RECONSTRUCTION; WEATHERING RATE;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

ALBULA;

EID: 79951773523     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.10.034     Document Type: Article

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