Fission-track analysis unravels the denudation history of the Bonar Range in the footwall of the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand

Geological Magazine

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 801-813

  Ring, Uwe ^a   Bernet, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Bonar Range; cooling; exhumation; fission track thermochronology; New Zealand; Southern Alps

Indexed keywords

APATITE; COOLING; EROSION; FAULTING; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

BONAR RANGE; EXHUMATION; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTHERN ALPS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

FISSION REACTIONS;

AGE DETERMINATION; COOLING; DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

EID: 77958457541     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000208     Document Type: Article

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