Constraints on the late Quaternary glaciations in Tibet from cosmogenic exposure ages of moraine surfaces

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 528-554

  Chevalier, Marie Luce ^a,b   Hilley, George ^b   Tapponnier, Paul ^c   Van Der Woerd, Jérôme ^d   Liu Zeng, Jing ^e   Finkel, Robert C ^f   Ryerson, Frederick J ^g   Li, Haibing ^a   Liu, Xiaohan ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC EXPOSURE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DATA SETS; EXPOSURE AGE; GLACIAL ADVANCES; LATE QUATERNARY; PALEOCLIMATE PROXY; PRODUCTION RATES; REANALYSIS; SCALING MODEL; SURFACE FORMATION; TIBETANS;

EROSION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AGE; DATABASE; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; LAST GLACIATION; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 79952043810     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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