Cooling and exhumation of the Shuswap Metamorphic Core Complex constrained by 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 200-216

  Vanderhaeghe, Olivier ^a,b,c   Teyssier, Christian ^b   McDougall, Ian ^c   Dunlap, W James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Argon thermochronology; Canadian Cordillera; Exhumation; Metamorphic core complex; Shuswap; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES;

ARGON; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DUCTILITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

COOLING; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PALEOCENE; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CANADA;

EID: 0037294548     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2003)115<0200:CAEOTS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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