Climate-controlled landscape evolution in the Western Transverse Ranges, California: Insights from Quaternary geochronology of the Saugus Formation and strath terrace flights

Lithosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-130

  DeVecchio, Duane E ^a   Heermance, Richard V ^b   Fuchs, Markus ^c   Owen, Lewis A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGIES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES;

SEDIMENTS;

AGGRADATION; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; QUATERNARY; TERRACE;

CALIFORNIA; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870249530     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L176.1     Document Type: Article

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