Strong tectonic and weak climatic control on exhumation rates in the Venezuelan Andes

Lithosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-16

  Bermúdez, Mauricio A ^a,b   Van der Beek, Peter A ^b   Bernet, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CATCHMENTS; EARTHQUAKES; RUNOFF; TECTONICS;

DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; FREQUENCY-SCALING; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION RATE;

STRAIN RATE;

AGE STRUCTURE; BELT; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DATA; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; TIMESCALE;

ANDES; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84873495611     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L212.1     Document Type: Article

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