Early paleozoic orogenic collapse, tectonic stability, and late paleozoic continental rifting revealed through thermochronology of k-feldspars, southern norway

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 604-620

  Dunlap, W J ^a   Possen, H ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; RIFTING; TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

NORWAY;

EID: 0032408653     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC01603     Document Type: Article

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