Late- to post-orogenic exhumation of the central Pyrenees revealed through combined thermochronological data and modelling

Basin Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-334

  Gibson, M ^a   Sinclair, Hugh D ^a   Lynn, G J ^a,b   Stuart, F M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Shell UK Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MODELING; OROGENY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 34548320866     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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