Toward understanding the post-collisional evolution of an orogen influenced by convergence at adjacent plate margins: Late Cretaceous-Tertiary thermotectonic history of the Apuseni Mountains

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Merten, S ^a,b   Matenco, L ^a,b   Foeken, J P T ^b,c,d   Andriessen, P A M ^a,b  

^a Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d QATAR PETROLEUM   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TECTONICS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CARPATHIANS; COOLING AGE; DEFORMATION STAGES; DINARIDES; FAULT SYSTEM; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN BELTS; PALEOGENE; PANNONIAN BASIN; PLATE BOUNDARIES; STRUCTURAL FIELDS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TIME INTERVAL;

LANDFORMS;

APATITE; COLLISION ZONE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; OROGENY; PALEOGENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

APUSENI MOUNTAINS; ROMANIA;

EID: 81255190577     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002887     Document Type: Article

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