Thermochronological data from Sudan in the frame of the denudational history of the Nubian Red Sea margin

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1279-1290

  Balestrieri, M L ^a   Abbate, E ^b   Bigazzi, G ^c   Ali, Omer El Bedri ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Apatite fission tracks; Denudation; Escarpment; Nubian Red Sea margin; Rifting times; Sudan; U Th He

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; DENUDATION; ESCARPMENT; NUBIAN RED SEA MARGIN; RIFTING TIMES; SUDAN; U-TH/HE;

ANNEALING; APATITE; COASTAL ZONES; COOLING; FISSION REACTIONS; HELIUM;

PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DENUDATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ESCARPMENT; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; RIFTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

AFRICA; ARABIAN SEA; EAST AFRICA; EGYPT; ERITREA; GULF OF ADEN; GULF OF SUEZ; INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH AFRICA; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; RED SEA [SUDAN]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

EID: 69749091777     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1820     Document Type: Article

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