Deciphering the driving forces of erosion rates on millennial to million-year timescales in glacially impacted landscapes: An example from the Western Alps

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1491-1515

  Glotzbach, C ^a   Van Der Beek, P ^b   Carcaillet, J ^b   Delunel, R ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EROSION RATE; FISSION TRACK DATING; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL LANDFORM; ICE THICKNESS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

ALPS; FRANCE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 84887834521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20107     Document Type: Article

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