Tertiary cooling and exhumation history in the Maramures area (internal eastern Carpathians, northern Romania): Thermochronology and structural data

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 298, Issue , 2008, Pages 169-195

  Groger H R ^a,b   Fugenschuh B ^c   Tischler, M ^a   Schmid, S M ^a   Foeken, J P T ^d  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KINEMATICS; NAPPE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSPRESSION; UPLIFT; URANIUM SERIES DATING; ZIRCON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MARAMURES; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 51349098548     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP298.9     Document Type: Article

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