Precise tracing of exhumation and provenance using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of detrital white mica: The example of the Central Alps

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 208, Issue , 2003, Pages 289-305

  Von Eynatten, H ^a   Wijbrans, J R ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; EXHUMATION; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICA; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PROVENANCE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

SWITZERLAND;

MICA;

EID: 0038721856     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.208.01.14     Document Type: Article

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