Incision rate of the yellow river in northeastern Tibet constrained by 10Be and 26Al cosmogenic isotope dating of fluvial terraces: Implications for catchment evolution and plateau building

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 353, Issue , 2011, Pages 189-219

  Perrineau, A ^a,b   van der Woerd, J ^b   Gaudemer, Y ^a   Liu Zeng, Jing ^c   Pik, R ^d   Tapponnier, P ^a   Thuizat, R ^b   Rongzhang, Zheng ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d CRPG CNRS   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EROSION RATE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INCISED VALLEY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 79953072562     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP353.10     Document Type: Article

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