Glacial advances constrained by 10Be exposure dating of bedrock landslides, Kyrgyz Tien Shan

Quaternary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-304

  Sanhueza Pino, Katia ^a   Korup, Oliver ^b   Hetzel, Ralf ^a   Munack, Henry ^b   Weidinger, Johannes T ^c   Dunning, Stuart ^d   Ormukov, Cholponbek ^e   Kubik, Peter W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c Erkudok Institute   (Austria)

^d NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Kyrgyz Institute of Seismology   (Kyrgyzstan)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

10Be exposure dating; Landslide; Quaternary glaciations; Rock avalanche; Tien Shan

Indexed keywords

10BE EXPOSURE DATING; AGE CONSTRAINTS; BEDROCK LANDSLIDES; CENTRAL ASIA; EXPOSURE AGE; GLACIAL ADVANCES; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL EROSION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LANDSLIDE DEPOSITS; NATURAL HAZARD; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; QUATERNARY GLACIATIONS; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEMI ARID; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TIEN SHAN;

DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RIVERS;

LANDSLIDES;

BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER ADVANCE; INTERGLACIAL; LANDSLIDE; POSTGLACIAL; QUATERNARY; ROCK AVALANCHE;

KYRGYZSTAN; TIEN SHAN;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 82455164278     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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