Rock avalanches and the pace of late Quaternary development of river valleys in the Karakoram Himalaya

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1836-1850

  Hewitt, Kenneth ^a   Gosse, John ^b   Clague, John J ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK INCISION; CLIMATIC EVENTS; GEOMORPHIC PROCESS; HIMALAYAS; HOLOCENES; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LATE QUATERNARY; NEW AGE; RIVER TERRACES; RIVER VALLEY; ROCK AVALANCHE; TECTONIC FORCING; TECTONIC PROCESS; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; TIME-SCALES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITS; LANDSLIDES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

LANDFORMS;

AGE DETERMINATION; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; MORAINE; OROGENY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEDIMENTATION; VALLEY;

KARAKORAM;

EID: 80051579098     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30341.1     Document Type: Article

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