Long- to short-term denudation rates in the southern Apennines: Geomorphological markers and chronological constraints

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-41

  Gioia, Dario ^a,b   Martino, Claudio ^a   Schiattarella, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

denudation rates; drainage network; landscape evolution; morphotectonics; southern Italy

Indexed keywords

APATITE; DENUDATION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FISSION TRACK DATING; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 79959759530     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10096-011-0003-1     Document Type: Article

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