Unusual cooling of the Middle Miocene Ichifusayama Granodiorite, Kyushu, Japan

Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-28

  Oikawa, Teruki ^a   Umeda, Koji ^a   Kanazawa, Sunao ^a   Matsuzaki, Tatsuji ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fission track dating; Ichifusayama Granodiorite; K Ar dating; Paleotopography; Southwest Japan; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646586025     PISSN: 13456296     EISSN: 13493825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2465/jmps.101.23     Document Type: Article

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