Putting it all together: Exhumation histories from a formal combination of heat flow and a suite of thermochronometers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  d'Alessio, M A ^a,b   Williams, C F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); EXHUMATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEAT FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 35348873786     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004725     Document Type: Article

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