Phanerozoic burial and unroofing history of the western Slave craton and Wopmay orogen from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Ault, Alexis K ^a   Flowers, Rebecca M ^a   Bowring, Samuel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

(U Th) He thermochronometry; apatite; Canadian shield; Slave craton; Wopmay orogen

Indexed keywords

(U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOMETRY; ARCHEAN; CANADIAN SHIELD; CENOZOIC; DATA SETS; DEVONIANS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FAR-FIELD; GEOTHERM; HEATING PHASE; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOZOIC; NEAR-SURFACE; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PEAK TEMPERATURES; SLAVE CRATON; SURFACE SUBSIDENCE; THERMAL HISTORY; THERMOCHRONOMETRY; TIME SIMULATIONS; WOPMAY OROGEN;

APATITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HELIUM; IGNEOUS ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

APATITE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CRATON; OROGENY; PHANEROZOIC; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UNROOFING;

CANADIAN SHIELD; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67449095832     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.035     Document Type: Article

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