Linking source and sink: Evaluating the balance between onshore erosion and offshore sediment accumulation since Gondwana break-up, South Africa

Tectonophysics

Volumn 455, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 94-103

  Tinker, Justine ^a   de Wit, Maarten ^a   Brown, Roderick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basin analysis; Continental denudation; Epeirogeny; Fission track thermochronology; Sediment accumulation; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GONDWANA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 46049097340     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.040     Document Type: Article

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