Post pan-african thermo-tectonic evolution of the north Mozambican basement and its implication for the Gondwana rifting. Inferences from 40Ar/ 39Ar hornblende, biotite and titanite fission-track dating

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 324, Issue , 2009, Pages 261-286

  Daszinnies, M C ^a,b   Jacobs, J ^a,c   Wartho, J A ^d   Grantham, G H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Westville Campus   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GONDWANA; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 74949136579     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP324.18     Document Type: Article

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