Defining rates of landscape evolution in a south Tibetan graben with in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1862-1876

  Rades, Eike F ^a,b   Hetzel, Ralf ^a   Strobl, Marcus ^a   Xu, Qiang ^c   Ding, Lin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic 10Be; Denudation rate; Exposure dating; Glaciations; Tangra Yum Co; Tibet

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

COSMOGENIC; DENUDATION RATES; EXPOSURE DATING; GLACIATIONS; TIBET;

LAKES;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; DENUDATION; GLACIATION; GRABEN; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84945492715     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3765     Document Type: Article

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