Timing and climatic drivers for glaciation across semi-arid western Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 188-208

  Dortch, Jason M ^a   Owen, Lewis A ^b   Caffee, Marc W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronology; Cosmogenic radionuclide dating; Gaussian; Glaciation; Himalaya; Moraine; Tibet

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; GAUSSIANS; GLACIATION; HIMALAYAS; MORAINE; TIBET;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; CIRQUE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GLACIATION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MONSOON; MORAINE; OROGENY; SEMIARID REGION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; LADAKH HIMALAYAS; PAMIRS; TIEN SHAN; XIZANG;

EID: 84883809258     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.025     Document Type: Article

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