Cosmogenic nuclide burial ages and provenance of Late Cenozoic deposits in the Sichuan Basin: Implications for Early Quaternary glaciations in east Tibet

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 304-312

  Kong, Ping ^a   Zheng, Yong ^a   Fu, Bihong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic nuclide; Dayi conglomerate; Glaciations; Longmen Shan; Min Jiang; Zircon U Pb age

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CONGLOMERATE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; DEPOSITION; EROSION RATE; FLYSCH; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; MIN RIVER [SICHUAN]; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 79955708006     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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