The use of ablation-dominated medial moraines as samplers for 10Be-derived erosion rates of glacier valley walls, Kichatna Mountains, AK

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 495-512

  Ward, Dylan J ^a   Anderson, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Range; Cosmogenic nuclides; Medial moraines; Periglacial erosion; Rockfall

Indexed keywords

ALASKA RANGE; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; MEDIAL MORAINES; PERIGLACIAL; ROCKFALLS;

ABLATION; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEBRIS; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; ROCK BURSTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

LANDFORMS;

ABLATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; GLACIAL EROSION; MORAINE; ROCKFALL; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; KICHATNA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952523315     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2068     Document Type: Article

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