Development of the southern Eastern Cordillera, NW Argentina, constrained by apatite fission track thermochronology: From early Cretaceous extension to middle Miocene shortening

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Decken, Anke ^a,b   Sobel, Edward R ^b   Coutand, Isabelle ^c   Haschke, Michael ^d   Riller, Ulrich ^e   Strecker, Manfred R ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CENOZOIC; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; OROGENY; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC PHENOMENA; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [ANDES]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33947365122     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001894     Document Type: Article

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