Paleo erosion rates and climate shifts recorded by Quaternary cut-and-fill sequences in the Pisco valley, central Peru

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 390, Issue , 2014, Pages 103-115

  Bekaddour, Toufik ^a   Schlunegger, Fritz ^a   Vogel, Hendrik ^a   Delunel, Romain ^a   Norton, Kevin P ^b   Akçar, Naki ^a   Kubik, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

10Be cosmogenic nuclide; Fluvial terrace deposits; Paleo denudation rate; Paleo El Ni o; Peru; Pisco valley

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DENUDATION RATES; FLUVIAL TERRACES; PERU; PISCO VALLEY;

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEDIMENTS;

EROSION;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DENUDATION; EL NINO; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT BUDGET; TERRACE;

ALTIPLANO; ICA; PERU; PISCO;

EID: 84892865616     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.048     Document Type: Article

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