Controls on denudation rates in tectonically stable Mediterranean carbonate terrain

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 553-568

  Ryb, U ^a   Matmon, A ^a   Erel, Y ^a   Haviv, I ^b   Katz, A ^a   Starinsky, A ^a   Angert, A ^a   Arnorld, Maurice ^c   Aumaître, Georges ^c   Bourlès, Didier ^c   Keddadouche, Karim ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CARBONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COSMOGENIC ISOTOPES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SUBSURFACE DRAINAGES; VARIABLE TIME SCALE;

WEATHERING;

AQUIFER; CARBONATE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; DISSOLUTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATER CHEMISTRY;

ISRAEL; JUDEA;

EID: 84896321256     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30886.1     Document Type: Article

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