Miocene exhumation of the Pamir revealed by detrital geothermochronology of Tajik rivers

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lukens, C E ^a   Carrapa, B ^a,b   Singer, B S ^c   Gehrels, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; MICA; SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; DATA SETS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; GNEISS DOME; METAMORPHIC DOMES; MIOCENE; PALEOZOIC; PAMIR MOUNTAINS; PROTEROZOIC; RIVER SANDS; SEDIMENT SOURCES; TAJIKISTAN; TECTONIC PROCESS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; WHITE MICA;

RIVERS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONGLOMERATE; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

PAMIRS; TAJIKISTAN;

MICAS;

EID: 84860255192     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003040     Document Type: Article

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