Evolution of the Late Pleistocene Aspe River (Western Pyrenees, France). Signature of climatic events and active tectonics

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 348, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 203-212

  Nivière, Bertrand ^a   Lacan, Pierre ^a,b   Regard, Vincent ^c   Delmas, Magali ^d   Calvet, Marc ^d   Huyghe, Damien ^a   Roddaz, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

10Be cosmogenic dating; Active tectonics; Climate; Moraines; Pyrenees; Terraces

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; TECTONICS; TERRACE;

FRANCE; PYRENEES;

EID: 84955593550     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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