Titanite and apatite fission track analyses on basement rocks of central-southern Madagascar: Constraints on exhumation and denudation rates along the eastern rift shoulder of the Morondava basin

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 343-361

  Emmel, B ^a   Jacobs, J ^a   Razakamanana, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Universite de Toliara   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Denudation; Fission track thermochronology; Gondwana break up; Madagascar; Shear zone reactivation

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT ZONE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 2442425212     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2003.10.009     Document Type: Article

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