Thermochronological evidence for Mio-Pliocene late orogenic extension in the north-eastern Albanides (Albania)

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 180-187

  Muceku, Bardhyl ^a,b   Van Der Beek, Peter ^a   Bernet, Matthias ^a   Reiners, Peter ^c   Mascle, Georges ^a   Tashko, Artan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; OROGENY; PLIOCENE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON;

ALBANIA; ALBANIDES; ALPS; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HELLENIDES; MIRDITA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649101976     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00803.x     Document Type: Article

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