Constraints on early Cenozoic underplating-driven uplift and denudation of western Scotland from low temperature thermochronometry

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 404-419

  Persano, Cristina ^a   Barfod, Dan N ^b   Stuart, Finlay M ^b   Bishop, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

apatite (U Th) He thermochronology; apatite fission track thermochronology; denudation; magmatic underplating; Paleocene; Scotland

Indexed keywords

LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOMETRY; MAGMATIC UNDERPLATING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCOTLAND; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

APATITE; CENOZOIC; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MESOZOIC; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UNDERPLATING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35548935614     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.016     Document Type: Article

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