Tectonically versus climatically driven Cenozoic exhumation of the Eurasian plate margin, Svalbard: Fission track analyses

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 621-639

  Blythe, Ann E ^a   Kleinspehn, Karen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; EXHUMATION; TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0032434608     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC01890     Document Type: Article

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