Constraining the exhumation and burial history of the SAFOD pilot hole with apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Blythe, A E ^a   d'Alessio, M A ^b   Burgmann R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; HEATING; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOANALYSIS;

FISSION-TRACK (FT); PILOT HOLES; SAN ANDREAS FAULT (SAF); THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

BOREHOLES;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7044246180     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019407     Document Type: Article

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