Surface uplift and erosion of the southernmost Argentine Precordillera

Geomorphology

Volumn 153-154, Issue , 2012, Pages 156-168

  Walcek, Alina A ^a   Hoke, Gregory D ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Cosmogenic; Geomorphology; Landscape evolution; Neogene; Nuclide; Surface uplift

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ARGENTINA; ICA; NAZCA; PERU;

EID: 84859428725     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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