Asymmetric exhumation across the Pyrenean orogen: Implications for the tectonic evolution of a collisional orogen

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-170

  Fitzgerald, P G ^a   Munoz J A ^b   Coney, P J ^a   Baldwin, S L ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b Grup Geodinamica I Analisi Conques   (Spain)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Paleoclimatology; Pyrenees; Tectonics; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; EXHUMATION; OROGENIC BELT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0343920818     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00225-3     Document Type: Article

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