Surface exposure dating reveals MIS-3 glacial maximum in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 297-308

  Rother, Henrik ^a   Lehmkuhl, Frank ^b   Fink, David ^c   Nottebaum, Veit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

10Be exposure dating; Glacial chronology; Khangai Mountains; Late Pleistocene glaciations; Mongolia

Indexed keywords

ICE; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS;

10BE EXPOSURE DATING; GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY; KHANGAI MOUNTAINS; LATE PLEISTOCENE GLACIATIONS; MONGOLIA;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 84911465849     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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