Widespread late Cenozoic increase in erosion rates across the interior of eastern Tibet constrained by detrital low-temperature thermochronometry

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Duvall, Alison R ^a,b   Clark, Marin K ^a   Avdeev, Boris ^a   Farley, Kenneth A ^c   Chen, Zhengwei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE;

CENOZOIC; CLIMATIC EVENTS; EROSION RATES; FISSION TRACK; LATE CENOZOIC; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOZOIC; MODELING RESULTS; PRIMARY CONTROL; RIVER SANDS; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; THERMOCHRONOMETRY; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EROSION;

APATITE; CATCHMENT; CENOZOIC; EROSION RATE; FISSION TRACK DATING; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; MESOZOIC; OROGENY; PLATEAU; SAND; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84862285310     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002969     Document Type: Article

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