Fission-track constraints on timing of Alpine nappe emplacement and rates of cooling and exhumation, Torrox area, Betic Cordilleras, S. Spain

Chemical Geology

Volumn 131, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 199-206

  Andriessen, P A M ^a   Zeck, H P ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GNEISS; MIOCENE; NAPPE EMPLACEMENT; TECTONIC UNROOFING;

SPAIN, BELTIC CORDILLERA, TORROX;

EID: 0030435733     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2541(95)00148-4     Document Type: Article

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