Radiogenic heat production in the Variscan crust: new determinations and distribution models in Corsica (northwestern Mediterranean)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 291, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 63-75

  Verdoya, M ^a   Pasquale, V ^a   Chiozzi, P ^a   Kukkonen, I T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL COMPOSITION; HEAT PRODUCTION;

CORSICA; FRANCE;

EID: 0032525679     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00031-6     Document Type: Article

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