Links between orogenic wedge deformation and erosional exhumation: Evidence from illite age analysis of fault rock and detrital thermochronology of syn-tectonic conglomerates in the Spanish Pyrenees

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 180-190

  Rahl, Jeffrey M ^a   Haines, Samuel H ^b,c   van der Pluijm, Ben A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argon Argon dating; Clay gouge; Detrital thermochronology; Orogenic wedge; Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CLAY GOUGE; DETRITAL THERMOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENIC WEDGE; PYRENEES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLAY MINERALS; DEFORMATION; EROSION; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONGLOMERATE; DEFORMATION; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; OROGENY; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TECTONIC WEDGE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 79957957005     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.036     Document Type: Article

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