An insight into the breakup of Gondwana: Identifying events through low-temperature thermochronology from the basement rocks of Madagascar

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Seward, Diane ^a   Grujic, D ^b   Schreurs, G ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fission track; Gondwana; Passive margins; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; GONDWANA; TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 6044257469     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003TC001556     Document Type: Article

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