Hillslope lowering rates and mobile-regolith residence times from in situ and meteoric 10Be analysis, Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory, Colorado

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 862-878

  Foster, Melissa A ^a   Anderson, Robert S ^a   Wyshnytzky, Cianna E ^b   Ouimet, William B ^c   Dethier, David P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROCKS;

ACCUMULATION MECHANISMS; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MODEL PREDICTION; ONE DIMENSIONAL ANALYTICAL MODEL; PRODUCTION RATES; SLOPE POSITIONS;

OBSERVATORIES;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEPOSITION; HILLSLOPE; REGOLITH; RESIDENCE TIME; SAPROLITE;

BOULDER CREEK [COLORADO]; COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929492307     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B31115.1     Document Type: Article

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