The post-Pan-African thermal and extensional history of crystalline basement rocks in eastern Tanzania

Tectonophysics

Volumn 275, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 331-350

  Noble, W P ^a   Foster, D A ^a   Gleadow, A J W ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continental extension; Craton; Denudation; Fission track dating; Mozambique Belt; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL EXTENSION; FISSION TRACK DATING;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0031399562     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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