Burial and exhumation of Corsica (France) in the light of fission track data

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Danišík, Martin ^a   Kuhlemann, Joachim ^a   Dunkl, István ^b   Székely, Balázs ^a   Frisch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); COOLING; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MESOZOIC; MODELING; OCEAN BASIN; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION;

CORSE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249781389     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001938     Document Type: Article

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