The post-orogenic evolution of the Northeast Greenland Caledonides constrained from apatite fission track analysis and inverse geodynamic modelling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 530-531, Issue , 2012, Pages 318-330

  Pedersen, Vivi Kathrine ^a   Nielsen, Søren Bom ^a   Gallagher, Kerry ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Erosion; Fission track analysis; Northeast Greenland; Passive margins; Topography

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; APATITE FISSION-TRACK ANALYSIS; FISSION TRACK; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; GREENLAND; HEAT EQUATION; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; MAGMATISMS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OROGENIC COLLAPSE; PASSIVE MARGINS; STRAIN RATE HISTORY; THERMAL HISTORY; TRACK LENGTHS; UNIMODAL; VARIABLE RATE;

EROSION; FISSION REACTIONS; GEODYNAMICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TOPOGRAPHY; UNLOADING;

TECTONICS;

APATITE; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEODYNAMICS; MAGMATISM; MODELING; OROGENY; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84858299064     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.018     Document Type: Article

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