Toward quantifying geomorphic rates of crustal displacement, landscape development, and the age of glaciation in the Venezuelan Andes

Geomorphology

Volumn 141-142, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-113

  Wesnousky, Steven G ^a   Aranguren, Reina ^b   Rengifo, Martin ^b   Owen, Lewis A ^c   Caffee, Marc W ^d   Murari, Madhav Krishna ^c   Pérez, Omar J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Active fault; Alluvial fans; Glaciation; Moraines; Optically stimulated luminescence; Slip rates; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides; Venezuelan Andes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPLACEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LUMINESCENCE; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; SLIP RATE; TIMESCALE; VALLEY FILL;

ANDES; CHAMA RIVER; VENEZUELA;

CHAMA;

EID: 84856420926     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.028     Document Type: Article

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