The Qs problem: Sediment volumetric balance of proximal foreland basin systems

Sedimentology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-130

  Allen, Philip A ^a   Armitage, John J ^b   Carter, Andrew ^c   Duller, Robert A ^d   Michael, Nikolas A ^a   Sinclair, Hugh D ^e   Whitchurch, Amy L ^f   Whittaker, Alexander C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e Institute of Geography School of Geosciences   (United Kingdom)

^f Nature Geoscience Nature Publishing Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foreland basins; Pyrenees; Sediment routing systems; Sediment supply

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; ACTIVE TECTONICS; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL RAINFALL; CATCHMENT EROSION; CLIMATIC PARAMETERS; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; FAN SYSTEMS; FORELAND BASIN; MEGAFANS; NORTHERN APENNINES; PROGRADATION; PYRENEES; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENT-ROUTING; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS; SLIP RATES; SWITZERLAND; TECTONIC FORCING; TECTONIC UPLIFT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; VOLUMETRIC BALANCE; VOLUMETRIC RATIO;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAVEL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CATCHMENT; DATING METHOD; DEPOSITION; EROSION RATE; FORELAND BASIN; GRAIN SIZE; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ALPS; PREALPS; PYRENEES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84872813281     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12015     Document Type: Article

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