Insights in the exhumation history of the NW Zagros from bedrock and detrital apatite fission-track analysis: Evidence for a long-lived orogeny

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 659-680

  Homke, Stéphane ^a   Vergés, Jaume ^a   van der Beek, Peter ^b   Fernàndez, Manel ^a   Saura, Eduard ^a   Barbero, Luis ^c   Badics, Balazs ^d   Labrin, Erika ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BEDROCK; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; DENUDATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOREARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; JURASSIC; MAASTRICHTIAN; MIOCENE; OBDUCTION; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; PALEOCENE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

IRAN; ZAGROS;

EID: 77956409814     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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