Landscape response to pleistocene-holocene precipitation change in the western cordillera, peru: 10be concentrations in modern sediments and terrace fills

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2488-2499

  McPhillips, Devin ^a,d   Bierman, Paul R ^a   Crocker, Thomas ^b   Rood, Dylan H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; cosmochronology; erosion; landscape

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; EROSION RATE; FILL; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TERRACE;

ANDES; CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [PERU]; PERU;

EID: 84892866822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JF002837     Document Type: Article

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