Pliocene - Pleistocene incision of the Green River, Kentucky, determined from radioactive decay of cosmogenic 26Al and10Be in Mammoth Cave sediments

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 825-836

  Granger, D E ^a   Fabel, D ^a   Palmer, A N ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic elements; Geochronology; Karst; Landscape evolution; Mammoth Cave; Ohio River basin

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE DECAYS;

EROSION; ICE; RIVERS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTS;

GEOLOGY;

CAVE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; INCISED VALLEY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; WATER TABLE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879879340     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<0825:PPIOTG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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