Offshore granulites from the Bay of Biscay margins: Fission tracks constrain a proterozoic to Tertiary thermal history

Terra Nova

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 337-342

  Fügenschuh, Bernhard ^a   Froitzheim, Nikolaus ^b   Capdevila, Raymond ^c   Boilot, Gilbert ^d  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FISSION TRACK DATING; GRANULITE; PHANEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 0142058229     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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