Using thermochronology to understand orogenic erosion

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 419-466

  Reiners, Peter W ^a   Brandon, Mark T ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Geochronology; Geomorphology; Orogeny; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EROSION; FLOW OF SOLIDS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

EXHUMATION; OROGENIC EROSION; OROGENY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 33744960393     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.34.031405.125202     Document Type: Article

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