Cosmogenic burial ages reveal sediment reservoir dynamics along the Yellow River, China

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 839-842

  Hu, Xiaofei ^a   Kirby, Eric ^b   Pan, Baotian ^a   Granger, Darryl E ^c   Su, Huai ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL AGES; BURIAL HISTORY; COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; FLUVIAL GRAVELS; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL TERRACES; LATE NEOGENE; LONG-TERM STORAGE; NEO GENES; REMOBILIZATION; RESERVOIR DYNAMICS; RIVER SYSTEMS; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; YELLOW RIVER; YELLOW RIVER , CHINA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITS; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; SETTLING TANKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CHRONOLOGY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; DILUTION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LOESS; PALEOSOL; PROVENANCE; REMOBILIZATION; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA; GANSU; LANZHOU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 80053953752     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32030.1     Document Type: Article

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