Timing of thrust activity in the High Zagros fold-thrust belt, Iran, from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Gavillot, Yann ^a   Axen, Gary J ^a,b   Stockli, Daniel F ^c   Horton, Brian K ^a,d   Fakhari, Mohammad D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

CAMBRIAN SANDSTONE; COOLING AGE; EARLY MIOCENE; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; HE COOLING; LATE MIOCENE; LATEST OLIGOCENE; LOCALIZED FAULT; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; NEO GENES; PALEOZOIC; SILICICLASTICS; THERMAL HISTORY; THERMOCHRONOMETRY; THRUST FAULTING;

COOLING;

APATITE; BASEMENT (BUILDING); CAMBRIAN; EXHUMATION; FAULTING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; NEOGENE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT; SUTURE ZONE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON;

ZAGROS;

EID: 77955788861     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002484     Document Type: Article

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