Rapid exhumation and mountain building in the Western Alps: Petrology and 40Ar/39 Ar geochronology of detritus from Tertiary basins of southeastern France

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Morag, Navot ^a   Avigad, Dov ^a   Harlavan, Yehudit ^b   McWilliams, Michael O ^c   Michard, André ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEPOSITION; DETRITUS; EXHUMATION; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; METAMORPHISM; MOUNTAIN; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; PETROLOGY; TERTIARY;

ALPS; BRIANCONNAIS ZONE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

MICAS;

EID: 50649100647     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002142     Document Type: Article

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