From nappe stacking to out-of-sequence postcollisional deformations: Cretaceous to Quaternary exhumation history of the SE Carpathians assessed by low-temperature thermochronology

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Merten, S ^a,b   Matenco, L ^a,b   Foeken, P T ^b,c   Stuart, F M ^c   Andriessen, P A M ^a,b  

^a Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; NAPPE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CARPATHIANS;

PARATETHYS;

EID: 77954608089     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002550     Document Type: Article

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