Detrital apatite fission-track ages in Middle Jurassic strata at the rifted margin of W Madagascar - Indicator for a protracted resedimentation history

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 27-38

  Emmel, B ^a   Geiger, M ^a   Jacobs, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fission track dating; Gondwana; Madagascar; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FISSION TRACK DATING; JURASSIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; MORONDAVA BASIN;

EID: 33645885311     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.09.022     Document Type: Article

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