Mechanisms of extensional basin formation and vertical motions at rift flanks: Constraints from tectonic modelling and fission-track thermochronology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 1994, Pages 417-433

  van der Beek, Peter ^a   Cloetingh, Sierd ^a   Andriessen, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN FORMATION; EXTENSION; FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TECTONIC MODELLING; VERTICAL MOTION;

ANTARCTICA, TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; RED SEA; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0028193367     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)90081-7     Document Type: Article

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