New insight into the dynamic development of the Southern Alps, New Zealand, from detailed thermochronological investigation of the Mataketake Range pergmatites

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 154, Issue , 1999, Pages 261-282

  Batt, Geoffrey E ^a,c   Kohn, Barry P ^b   Braun, Jean ^a   McDougall, Ian ^a   Ireland, Trevor R ^a,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; OPHIOLITE; PEGMATITE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033386752     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.154.01.12     Document Type: Article

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