Detecting provenance variations and cooling patterns within the western Alpine orogen through 40Ar/39Ar geochronology on detrital sediments: The Tertiary Piedmont Basin, northwest Italy

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 378, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-103

  Carrapa, B ^a,b   Wijbrans, J ^a,b   Bertotti, G ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooling; Exhumation; Provenance; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MICA; SEDIMENTS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; DETRITAL WHITE MICA; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; LATE CRETACEOUS; PROVENANCE; WESTERN ALPS;

COOLING;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; DETECTION METHOD; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; PROVENANCE; TERTIARY;

ALPS; ITALY; PIEDMONT BASIN; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 84870887922     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2378-7.67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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