Sediment routing system evolution within a diachronously uplifting orogen: Insights from detrital zircon thermochronological analyses from the South-Central pyrenees

American Journal of Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 442-482

  Whitchurch, A L ^a,d   Carter, A ^b   Sinclair, H D ^c   Duller, R A ^a   Whittaker, A C ^a   Allen, P A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon fission track; Orogenic evolution; Pyrenees; Sediment routing systems; Thermochronology; U Pb zircon dating

Indexed keywords

DEPOCENTER; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EROSION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

PYRENEES;

EID: 83155175655     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/05.2011.03     Document Type: Article

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