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EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS
卷 40, 期 4, 页码 487-501出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3649
关键词
alluvial fan; dating; stratigraphy; weathering; erosion; Owens Valley
资金
- British Society for Geomorphology
- Geological Society of London
- International Association of Sedimentologists
- Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust
- Royal Society
- Janet Watson bursary scheme at the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
A wide range of sedimentological and geomorphological field research depends on the availability of accurate and detailed depositional age models. Although exposure dating techniques such as cosmogenic nuclide and luminescence dating are now widely available, they remain expensive and time-consuming, and this frequently limits the density of age constraints and the resolutions of age models for many study areas. We present a simple and effective, field-based approach for extending and correlating existing age models to un-dated surfaces. In Owens Valley, California, we make use of detailed beryllium-10 (Be-10) chronologies reported for four different alluvial fan systems, to precisely calibrate the rate at which weathering fractures are enlarged in granitic surface boulders. We show that these fractures have widened at a time-integrated rate of 1.05 +/- 0.03mmka(-1) for at least 140ka at this location, and this relationship can be represented by a linear regression that makes them ideal chronometers for surface dating. Our analysis offers a new approach to refining the uncertainties of both surface erosion rate and cosmogenic age estimates at this location. Ultimately, we integrate our observations to devise a robust age calibration for clast fracture widths in Owens Valley, and we demonstrate its application by estimating the ages of 27 additional local fan surfaces. We present an updated and extended stratigraphy for eight Sierra Nevada fan systems in total, with exceptional age control. This novel approach to dating sedimentary surfaces is inexpensive and easily applied in the field, and has the potential to significantly increase the temporal and spatial density of age constraints available for a particular study area. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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