Correlations of cave levels, stream terraces and planation surfaces along the River Mur-Timing of landscape evolution along the eastern margin of the Alps

Geomorphology

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 62-78

  Wagner, Thomas ^a   Fritz, Harald ^a   Stüwe, Kurt ^a   Nestroy, Othmar ^b   Rodnight, Helena ^c   Hellstrom, John ^d   Benischke, Ralf ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cave level; Cosmogenic nuclide; Luminescence; Planation surface; Sediment burial; Stream terrace

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CAVE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; HIATUS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN; OROGENY; PLANATION; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; STREAM; TERRACE; TRANSITION ZONE; TYPE LOCALITY;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; MURA RIVER; PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 80052903673     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.04.024     Document Type: Article

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