Exhumation of an accretionary prism - Results from fission track thermochronology of the Shimanto Belt, southwest Japan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 331, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 247-267

  Hasebe, N ^a   Tagami, T ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary complex; Fission track method; Shimanto Belt; Southwest Japan; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0035036658     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00282-1     Document Type: Article

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