The low-temperature thermal history of northern Switzerland as revealed by fission track analysis and inverse thermal modelling

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-270

  Timar Geng, Zoltan ^a,b   Fügenschuh, Bernhard ^a,c   Wetzel, Andreas ^a   Dresmann, Horst ^a  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fission track analysis; Low temperature thermochronology; Nagra boreholes; Northern Switzerland

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BOREHOLE; CONSOLIDATION; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLINITY; DATA SET; EOCENE; FISSION TRACK DATING; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MESOZOIC; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RIFTING; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; ZIRCON;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33845372100     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-006-1191-z     Document Type: Article

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