Detrital fission-track analysis and sedimentary petrofacies as keys of alpine exhumation: The example of the Venetian foreland (European southern Alps, Italy)

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1051-1061

  Zattin, Massimiliano ^a,b   Stefani, Cristina ^a,c   Martin, Silvana ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BUILDINGS; FAULTING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; APATITE FISSION-TRACK ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; DEFORMATION FRONT; FISSION TRACK AGES; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY COVERS;

FISSION REACTIONS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FORELAND BASIN; OLIGOCENE; PETROGRAPHY;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1842659970     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/051403731051     Document Type: Article

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