What perturbs isotherms? An assessment using fission-track thermochronology and thermal modelling along the Gotthard transect, Central Alps

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 324, Issue , 2009, Pages 111-124

  Glotzbach, C ^a,b   Spiegel, C ^a,c   Reinecker, J ^a   Rahn, M ^d   Frisch, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; GOTTHARD TUNNEL; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 74949093502     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP324.9     Document Type: Article

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