10Be exposure dating of river terraces at the southern mountain front of the Dzungarian Alatau (SE Kazakhstan) reveals rate of thrust faulting over the past ~400ka

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 168-178

  Cording, Anja ^a   Hetzel, Ralf ^a   Kober, Martin ^b   Kley, Jonas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

10Be exposure dating; Active deformation; Dzungarian Alatau; River terraces; Thrust faulting; Tien Shan

Indexed keywords

10BE EXPOSURE DATING; ACTIVE DEFORMATION; DZUNGARIAN ALATAU; RIVER TERRACES; THRUST FAULTING; TIEN SHAN;

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; QUARTZ; RIVERS;

FAULT SLIPS;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; BOULDER; DATING METHOD; GPS; RIVER TERRACE; STRAIN; THRUST FAULT;

ALATAW MOUNTAINS; KAZAKHSTAN; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84891834891     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.10.016     Document Type: Article

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