Arc-continent collision in Papua Guinea: Constraints from fission track thermochronology

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 950-966

  Hill, Kevin C ^a   Raza, Asaf ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; COLLISION ZONE; FISSION TRACK DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0033509508     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900043     Document Type: Article

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