Evaluating thermal history models for the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia, using (U-Th)/He and fission-track data from borehole apatites

Tectonophysics

Volumn 349, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 277-295

  House, M A ^a   Kohn, B P ^b   Farley, K A ^a   Raza, A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age; Apatite; Fission track; Helium; Otway Basin; Thermal history

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BASIN EVOLUTION; BOREHOLE; FISSION TRACK DATING; HELIUM; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036290293     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00057-4     Document Type: Article

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