Rock uplift rates in South Africa from isochron burial dating of fl uvial and marine terraces

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1019-1022

  Erlanger, Erica D ^a   Granger, Darryl E ^a   Gibbon, Ryan J ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; INCISION RATES; MESOZOIC RIFTING; NEO GENES; ROCK UPLIFT RATES; SOUTH AFRICA;

GEOLOGY;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GEODYNAMICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOZOIC; NEOGENE; PLATEAU; RIFTING; RIVER; TERRACE; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

EASTERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA; SUNDAYS RIVER;

EID: 84868698151     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33172.1     Document Type: Article

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