Terrace staircase development in the Southern Pyrenees Foreland: Inferences from 10Be terrace exposure ages at the Segre River

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 101, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-112

  Stange, Kurt Martin ^a   van Balen, Ronald ^a   Carcaillet, Julien ^b   Vandenberghe, Jef ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic nuclides; Ebro Basin; Exposure dating; Geomorphology; Pyrenees; Quaternary geology; River terraces; Sedimentology; Segre River

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; EBRO BASIN; EXPOSURE DATING; PYRENEES; RIVER TERRACES;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STAIRS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

AGE DETERMINATION; AGGRADATION; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATA SET; DENUDATION; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; FORELAND BASIN; GIS; GLACIATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TERRACE; TRIBUTARY;

CATALONIA; EBRO BASIN; PYRENEES; SEGRE RIVER; SPAIN;

EID: 84872786173     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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