Low-temperature thermochronology and thermokinematic modeling of deformation, exhumation, and development of topography in the central Southern Alps, New Zealand

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Herman, Frédéric ^a   Cox, Simon C ^b   Kamp, Peter J J ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RADIATION DAMAGE; TOPOGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

ALPINE FAULTS; BEST FIT; DETAILED KINETICS; EQUIVALENT METHOD; FISSION TRACK AGES; LOCAL FAULTS; LOCAL VARIATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOZOIC; NEO GENES; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVED DATA; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE CONVERGENCE; REGIONAL PATTERN; REPRODUCIBILITIES; REVERSE FAULTS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; VELOCITY PARAMETERS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AGE DETERMINATION; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 79953040662     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002367     Document Type: Article

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