Paleogeothermal gradient and deformation style, Pacific front of the Southern Alps Orogen: Constraints from fission track thermochronology

Tectonophysics

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 37-58

  Kamp, P J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Australia Pacific plate boundary; Fission track; Paleogeothermal gradient; Southern Alps

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; PALAEOGEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; PLATE BOUNDARY;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 0030867371     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00246-6     Document Type: Article

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