Reconstructing orogenic exhumation histories using synorogenic detrital zircons and apatites: an example from the Betic Cordillera, SE Spain

Basin Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 353-364

  Lonergan, Lidia ^a   Johnson, Christopher ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON;

SPAIN;

EID: 0032435272     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1998.00071.x     Document Type: Article

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