Age constraints for the thermal evolution and erosional history of the central European Variscan belt: New data from the sediments and basement of the Carboniferous foreland basin in western Poland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1011-1024

  Mazur, Stanisław ^a   Dunlap, W James ^b   Turniak, Krzysztof ^a   Oberc Dziedzic, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; BASIN EVOLUTION; CARBONIFEROUS; COLLISION ZONE; EROSION; FORELAND BASIN; MUSCOVITE; PHYLLITE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

MICAS;

EID: 33750705948     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492004-170     Document Type: Article

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