Quantifying exhumation from apatite fission-track analysis and vitrinite reflectance data: Precision, accuracy and latest results from the Atlantic margin of NW Europe

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 196, Issue , 2002, Pages 331-354

  Green, Paul F ^a   Duddy, Ian R ^a   Hegarty, Kerry A ^a  

^a Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; PALEOTEMPERATURE; TERTIARY; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036446233     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.196.01.18     Document Type: Article

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