Desert landscape processes on a timescale of millions of years, probed by cosmogenic nuclides

Aeolian Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-164

  Fujioka, Toshiyuki ^a   Chappell, John ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aridity; Cosmogenic nuclide; Desert pavement; Dune field; Landscape evolution; Late Cenozoic climate change

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; ARIDITY; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE VARIATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DESERT; DUNE FIELD; EROSION RATE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEMIARID REGION; TIMESCALE;

ATACAMA DESERT; AUSTRALIA; CHILE; ISRAEL; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 79961127931     PISSN: 18759637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2011.03.003     Document Type: Review

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