Resolving denudational histories in orogenic belts with apatite fission-track thermochronology and structural data: An example from southern Spain

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 623-626

  Johnson, Christopher ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; FISSION REACTIONS; TECTONICS;

APATITE FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY; EARLY PLIOCENE; LATE MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELTS; SIERRA NEVADA; SOUTHERN SPAIN; STRUCTURAL DATA; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

EROSION;

APATITE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOLDING; FOLIATION; MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TERTIARY;

ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; SIERRA NEVADA [BETIC CORDILLERA]; SPAIN; SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0030732093     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0623:RDHIOB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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