Rapid Pliocene exhumation of the central Greater Caucasus constrained by low-temperature thermochronometry

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Avdeev, Boris ^a   Niemi, Nathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC BASIN; CAUCASUS; CENOZOIC; COOLING HISTORY; COOLING RATES; EURASIA; EURASIA PLATE; GREATER CAUCASUS; LOW TEMPERATURES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OLIGOCENE; PLIOCENE; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL HISTORY; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

DEFORMATION;

ARABIAN PLATE; BACKARC BASIN; DEFORMATION; EURASIAN PLATE; EXHUMATION; PLATE TECTONICS; PLIOCENE; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CAUCASUS;

EID: 79953238574     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002808     Document Type: Article

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