Denudation history of the continental margin of western peninsular India since the early Mesozoic - reconciling apatite fission-track data with geomorphology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 187-201

  Gunnell, Y ^a   Gallagher, K ^b   Carter, A ^c   Widdowson, M ^d   Hurford, A J ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denudation rate; Escarpment; Fission track; Geomorphology; India; Modelling; Rifted margin

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MESOZOIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING;

(WEST); INDIA;

EID: 0141954016     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00380-7     Document Type: Article

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