Significance of Late Paleozoic fission-track ages in volcanic rocks from the Lavras Do Sul region, southernmost Brazil

Gondwana Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-88

  Weissheimer de Borba, André ^a   de Lima, Evandro Fernandes ^a   Vignol Lelarge, Maria Lidia Medeiros ^a   Mizusaki, Ana Maria Pimentel ^a   Sparrenberg, Irena ^b   de Barros, Carla Ennes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Denudation; Fission tracks; Southwestern Gondwana; Thermal history; Uplift

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANDESITE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FISSION TRACK DATING; MANTLE SOURCE; OUTCROP; PALEOZOIC; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

BRAZIL; LAVRAS; MINAS GERAIS;

EID: 0142040628     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70645-6     Document Type: Article

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