(U-Th)/He thermochronometry constraints on unroofing of the eastern Kaapvaal craton and significance for uplift of the southern African plateau

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 827-830

  Flowers, Rebecca M ^a   Schoene, Blair ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED COOLING; ARCHEAN; BARBERTON; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; GREENSTONE BELTS; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LATE CRETACEOUS; MAGMATISMS; MESOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOZOIC; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL HISTORY; THERMAL HISTORY SIMULATION; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

APATITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

APATITE; ARCHEAN; CRETACEOUS; HELIUM; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THORIUM; URANIUM;

KAAPVAAL CRATON;

EID: 77958104029     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30980.1     Document Type: Article

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