Thermal evolution, rate of exhumation, and tectonic significance of metamorphic rocks from the floor of the Alboran extensional basin, western Mediterranean

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 671-689

  Platt, J P ^a   Soto, J I ^b   Whitehouse, M J ^c   Hurford, A J ^a   Kelley, S P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; TECTONICS; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

ALBORAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); FISSION REACTIONS; GEODYNAMICS; MICA; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; ROCKS; TECTONICS;

APATITE FISSION-TRACK ANALYSIS; HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC ROCKS; LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; RADIOGENIC HEAT PRODUCTION; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

EID: 0032418234     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC02204     Document Type: Article

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