Estimating exhumation rate and relief evolution by spectral analysis of age-elevation datasets

Braun, Jean

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Estimating exhumation rate and relief evolution by spectral analysis of age-elevation datasets

Date

2002

Authors

Braun, Jean

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Extracting independent information on mean exhumation rate and the rate of surface relief change from thermochronometric datasets is essential to improve our understanding of the complex coupling between tectonics and surface erosion, i.e. the time-scale