Exposure dating of precariously balanced rocks

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 295-303

  Balco, Greg ^a   Purvance, Matthew D ^b,c   Rood, Dylan H ^d,e  

^a BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c ITASCA CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beryllium 10; Cosmogenic nuclides; Exposure dating; Paleoseismology; Precariously balanced rocks

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; BOULDER; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; EXHUMATION; FORWARD MODELING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOSEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955729797     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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