Detrital geochronology of unroofing magmatic complexes and the slow erosion of Oligocene volcanoes in the Alps

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 324-336

  Malusà, Marco G ^a   Villa, Igor M ^a,b   Vezzoli, Giovanni ^a   Garzanti, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Institut f Geologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bregaglia Gonfolite; Detrital geochronology; Mineral age stratigraphy; Moving age peak; Quantitative erosion modelling; Stationary age peak

Indexed keywords

BREGAGLIA-GONFOLITE; DETRITAL GEOCHRONOLOGY; MOVING AGE PEAK; QUANTITATIVE EROSION MODELLING; STATIONARY AGE PEAK;

APATITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EROSION; FISSION REACTIONS; MINERALS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EROSION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MAGMATISM; OLIGOCENE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; VOLCANO;

ALPS;

EID: 78650298912     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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