Present status and future avenues of source region discrimination and characterization using fission track analysis

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 124, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 31-45

  Carter, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dating; Denudation; Fission track analysis; Provenance

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; PROVENANCE;

EID: 0032823663     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00119-5     Document Type: Article

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