Quantifying rates of landscape evolution and tectonic processes by thermochronology and numerical modeling of crustal heat transport using PECUBE

Tectonophysics

Volumn 524-525, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-28

  Braun, Jean ^a   van der Beek, Peter ^a   Valla, Pierre ^a,c   Robert, Xavier ^a   Herman, Frédéric ^c   Glotzbach, Christoph ^d   Pedersen, Vivi ^e   Perry, Claire ^b   Simon Labric, Thibaud ^a,f   Prigent, Cécile ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Heat transfer in the crust; Low temperature thermochronology; Numerical modeling; PECUBE; Quantitative thermochronology

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DETRITAL THERMOCHRONOLOGY; HEAT TRANSPORT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NEIGHBORHOOD ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL MODELING; PECUBE; POTENTIAL USERS; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TECTONIC PROCESS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TIME VARYING; TIME-TEMPERATURE HISTORY;

HEAT TRANSFER; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ALGORITHM; CRUST; DATA SET; HEAT PRODUCTION; HEAT TRANSFER; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TRACKING;

EID: 84856963092     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.035     Document Type: Review

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