Argon and fission track dating of Alpine metamorphism and basement exhumation in the Sopron Mts. (Eastern Alps, Hungary): Thermochronology or mineral growth?

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 83, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 191-218

  Balogh, K ^a   Dunkl, Istvan ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Laboratory for Geochemical Research   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASEMENT ROCK; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; MUSCOVITE; PLIOCENE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EASTERN ALPS; SOPRON HILLS;

EID: 14844306695     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-004-0066-0     Document Type: Review

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