Multi-method chronometric constraints on the evolution of the Northern Kyrgyz Tien Shan granitoids (Central Asian Orogenic Belt): From emplacement to exhumation

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 131-146

  Glorie, S ^a   De Grave, J ^a   Buslov, M M ^b   Elburg, M A ^a   Stockli, D F ^c   Gerdes, A ^d   Van den haute, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d Mineralogie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apatite (U Th Sm) He dating; Apatite fission track dating; Ar Ar dating; Central Asia; Kyrgyz Tien Shan; Thermochronology; Zircon U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

APATITE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GRANITOID; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

KYRGYZSTAN; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 77249091684     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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