Multiphase cooling and exhumation of the southern Adelaide Fold Belt: Constraints from apatite fission track data

Basin Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-45

  Gibson, H J ^a   Stuwe K ^b  

^a Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; COOLING; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOLD BELT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034164038     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2000.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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