Quaternary downcutting rate of the New River, Virginia, measured from differential decay of cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in cave-deposited alluvium

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-110

  Granger, Darryl E ^a   Kirchner, James W ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVES; SEDIMENTS;

COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DIFFERENTIAL DECAYS; REGIONAL TECTONICS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT BURIAL; VIRGINIA;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALUMINUM COMPOUND; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CAVE DEPOSIT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; QUATERNARY;

NEW RIVER [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84879890713     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0107:QDROTN>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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