Post-orogenic evolution of the southern Pyrenees: Constraints from inverse thermo-kinematic modelling of low-temperature thermochronology data

Basin Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 418-436

  Fillon, Charlotte ^a   van der Beek, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EXHUMATION; FORELAND BASIN; MESSINIAN; NEOGENE; OROGENY; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPLIFT;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84863461287     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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