Regional exhumation history of brittle crust during subduction initiation, Fiordland, southwest New Zealand, and implications for thermochronologic sampling and analysis strategies

Geosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 409-425

  Sutherland, Rupert ^a   Gurnis, Michael ^b   Kamp, Peter J J ^c   House, Martha A ^d  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d PASADENA CITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUST; EXHUMATION; FAULT; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOSTATISTICS; PLATE MOTION; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 77954020256     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00225.SA2     Document Type: Article

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