Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic exhumation history of northern Svalbard and its regional significance: Constraints from apatite fission track analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 514-517, Issue , 2012, Pages 81-92

  Dorr N ^a   Lisker, F ^a   Clift, P D ^b   Carter, A ^c   Gee, D G ^d   Tebenkov, A M ^e   Spiegel, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Polar Marine Geological Research Expedition   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amerasian Basin; Apatite fission track dating; Eurasian Basin; Eurekan Orogeny; Exhumation; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

AMERASIAN BASIN; APATITE FISSION TRACK DATING; EURASIAN BASIN; EUREKAN OROGENY; EXHUMATION; SVALBARD;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; APATITE; DEFORMATION; EROSION; FISSION REACTIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

APATITE; CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION; DEVONIAN; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; FISSION TRACK DATING; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; OCEAN BASIN; OROGENY; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

AMERASIAN BASIN; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; BARENTS SEA; EURASIAN BASIN; GREENLAND; LABRADOR SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84855322040     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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