Low-temperature thermochronological record of exhumation of the Bitterroot metamorphic core complex, northern Cordilleran Orogen

Tectonophysics

Volumn 349, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 23-36

  Foster, David A ^a   Raza, Asaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bitterroot range; Continental extension; Fission track thermochronology; Idaho batholith; Metamorphic core complex

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; LOW TEMPERATURE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; TERTIARY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036290178     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00044-6     Document Type: Article

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