40Ar/39Ar geochronology constraints on the Middle Tertiary basement extensional exhumation, and its relation to ore-forming and magmatic processes in the Eastern Rhodope (Bulgaria)

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 267-282

  Bonev, Nikolay ^a   Marchev, Peter ^b   Singer, Brad ^c  

^a Faculty of Geology and Geography   (Bulgaria)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar geochronology; Bulgaria; Extensional tectonics; Magmatism; Ore deposits; Rhodope

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASEMENT ROCK; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIKE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOOTWALL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; TERTIARY;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; RHODOPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751118733     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/ga.19.267-282     Document Type: Article

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