Optical dating of alluvial deposits at the orogenic front of the andean precordillera (mendoza, argentina)

Geochronometria

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-75

  Schmidt, Silke ^a   Tsukamoto, Sumiko ^b   Salomon, Eric ^a   Frechen, Manfred ^b   Hetzel, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan sediments; Andean Precordillera; Incomplete bleaching; Minimum age model; OSL dating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863963375     PISSN: 17338387     EISSN: 18971695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13386-011-0050-5     Document Type: Article

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