Time-dependent effects of heat advection and topography on cooling histories during erosion

Tectonophysics

Volumn 270, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 167-195

  Mancktelow, Neil S ^a   Grasemann, Bernhard ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Fission track dating; Geochronology; Mathematical models; Thermal history; Topography

Indexed keywords

COOLING HISTORY; EROSION; EXHUMATION; EXHUMATION RATE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HEAT ADVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; THERMAL HISTORY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030667883     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00279-X     Document Type: Article

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