Exhumation and uplift of the Sierras Pampeanas: Preliminary implications from K-Ar fault gouge dating and low-T thermochronology in the Sierra de Comechingones (Argentina)

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 671-694

  Löbens, Stefan ^a   Bense, Frithjof A ^a   Wemmer, Klaus ^a   Dunkl, István ^a   Costa, Carlos H ^b   Layer, Paul ^c   Siegesmund, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Andean uplift; Fault gouge dating; K Ar dating; Low thermal geochronology; Sierras Pampeanas

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; FAULT GOUGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; NAZCA PLATE; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

ARGENTINA; SIERRA DE COMECHINGONES; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS;

EID: 79951942669     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-010-0608-0     Document Type: Article

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