Post-rift seaward downwarping at passive margins: New insights from southern Oman using stratigraphy to constrain apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He dating

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 647-650

  Gunnell, Yanni ^a   Carter, Andy ^b   Petit, Carole ^c   Fournier, Marc ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Denadation; Flexure; Oman; Rifted margin; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

DENADATION; FLEXURE; POST-RIFT EROSION; RIFTED MARGIN; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ELASTICITY; EROSION; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

APATITE; DENUDATION; ESCARPMENT; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PASSIVE MARGIN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 34547136439     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23639A.1     Document Type: Article

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