Apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronology of the Rochovce granite (Slovakia) - Implications for the thermal evolution of the Western Carpathian-Pannonian region

Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 101, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Danišík, Martin ^a   Kohút, Milan ^b   Dunkl, István ^c   Hraško, L'ubomír ^b   Frisch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Dionyz Stur State Institute of Geology   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

(U Th) He dating; Fission track analysis; Miocene thermal event; Rochovce granite; Thermal modelling; Western Carpathians

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FISSION TRACK DATING; GRANITE; MIOCENE; MODELING; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PANNONIAN BASIN; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 57849104329     PISSN: 16618726     EISSN: 16618734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-008-1279-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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