Detrital thermochronology records changing source areas and steady exhumation in the Western European Alps

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-242

  Glotzbach, Christoph ^a   Bernet, Matthias ^a   van der Beek, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CONTROLLED EROSION; DATA RECORDS; DATA SETS; DETRITAL THERMOCHRONOLOGY; DRAINAGE PATTERNS; EROSION RATES; EUROPEAN ALPS; EXHUMATION RATES; LAG-TIME; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT BUDGETS; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SOURCE AREA; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; THERMAL MODELING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EROSION; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

APATITE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ALPS;

EID: 79951687586     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31757.1     Document Type: Article

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