Thermal evolution of the Žiar Mountains basement (Inner Western Carpathians, Slovakia) constrained by fission track data

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-30

  Danišík, Martin ^a   Kohút, Milan ^b   Dunkl, István ^c   Frisch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Dionyz Stur State Institute of Geology   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burial and exhumation; Cretaceous and tertiary; Fission track dating; Thermal modeling; Thermochronology; Western Carpathians; iar Mts

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; OLIGOCENE; OVERPRINTING; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 42149148100     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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