Pliocene-Pleistocene asymmetric unroofing of the Irian fold belt, Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Apatite fission-track thermochronology

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1438-1449

  Weiland, Richard J ^a   Cloos, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

APATITE FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY; AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; FISSION TRACK AGES; MINING DISTRICT; PALEOZOIC STRATA; REGIONAL WEATHER; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC; CENTRAL RANGES; FISSION TRACK; MIDDLE MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELTS;

FISSION REACTIONS;

APATITE; COOLING; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; UNROOFING; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; FOLD BELT;

INDONESIA; NEW GUINEA; PAPUA [(PRV) INDONESIA]; PUNCAK JAYA; CENTRAL RANGE; IRIAN JAYA;

EID: 0030436317     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1438:PPAUOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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