Post-collisional rapid exhumation and erosion during continental sedimentation: The example of the late Variscan Salvan-Dorénaz basin (Western Alps)

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 364-379

  Capuzzo, Nicola ^a   Handler, Robert ^b   Neubauer, Franz ^b   Wetzel, Andreas ^a  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39 chronometry; Exhumation; Late Paleozoic; Mica; Sediment provenance; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; CARBONIFEROUS; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; INTRAMONTANE BASIN; PROVENANCE; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0042418405     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-003-0332-0     Document Type: Article

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